24 Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder

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

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.

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

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

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.

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