Top 40 Johann Gottfried Herder Quotes
#1. We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self
Johann Gottfried Herder
#2. Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#4. Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.
George W. Bush
#6. Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#7. All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
Johann Gottfried Herder
#8. Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
#9. We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. It is greatly understated to compare humans to an absorbent sponge, a glowing fuse; they are each an innumerable harmony, a living self that has an effect on all of the forces that surround them.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#11. The way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart.
Timothy Zahn
#13. Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#14. Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#15. Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#16. The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human,
local, civil, and national freedom
Johann Gottfried Herder
#17. The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once.
Julianna Margulies
#18. Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
P.D. James
#19. It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#20. On my Instagram, lots of people tag me in photos of just dudes with beards, and they're like, 'Oh my God, I met Chet Faker' and I'm like, 'That doesn't even look like me.'
Chet Faker
#21. Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#22. Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.
Henry Ford
#23. You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture
Johann Gottfried Herder
#25. Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#26. Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#27. Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#29. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#30. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species
Johann Gottfried Herder
#31. A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#32. After all, real things are not simple.
C.S. Lewis
#33. To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#34. There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.
Emily Giffin
#35. The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#36. As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#37. Eventually, all earthly causes will fail. Only the plan of God will succeed. The Lord is our shield, our glory, and the One who lifts our head. In this life we will have problems, but God encourages us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#38. Always be curious and ask questions"
"Always find the answers to questions"
"Never take anything for granted"
In the matter where NoBody becomes SomeBody and SomeBody becomes NoBody; and wherein some matters matter
Cge
#39. The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#40. I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
Andrew Bird