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“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Motivation Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Lying Quotes
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“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.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Beautiful Quotes
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#Purpose Quotes
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“Whoever perseveres will be crowned.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Perseverance Quotes
#Persevere Quotes
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“Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Wise Quotes
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#Fool Quotes
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“We live in a world we ourselves create.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : "The German Sturm und Drang". Book by Roy Pascal, p. 136, 1959.
#World Quotes
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“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.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.
#Passion Quotes
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“Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Wise Quotes
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“Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 54, 1895.
#Jesus Quotes
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#Humanity Quotes
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“All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Individual Quotes
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#Existence Quotes
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“So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Book Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Creative Quotes
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“Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Bullets Quotes
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“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”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.222
#Children Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Wife Quotes
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“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.
#Fruit Quotes
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“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.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Hands Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Soul Quotes
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“Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Brave Quotes
#World Quotes
#Lions Quotes
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“Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Love Quotes
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#Embrace Quotes
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“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.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
#Writing Quotes
#Ice Quotes
#Sea Quotes
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“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.”
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Source : "'Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit' ('Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man')". Book by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by T. Churchill. Book 5, 1803.
#Moving Quotes
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