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Top 20 Johann Gottfried Herder Quotes (2025 Update)

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “We live in a world we ourselves create.”

1. “We live in a world we ourselves create.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”

3. “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 Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Whoever perseveres will be crowned.”

5. “Whoever perseveres will be crowned.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.”

6. “Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.”

7. “Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.”

11. “Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”

12. “Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.”

13. “Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.”

14. “The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”

15. “The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”

16. “Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.”

17. “It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing.”

18. “All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.”

21. “It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”

23. “What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder Quote: “It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.”

24. “It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

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