24 Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.