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 HerderTags: human-condition
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 HerderTags: life inspirational reason purpose meaning-of-life meaning beautiful purpose-of-life
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 HerderAll our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
Johann Gottfried HerderWithout inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried HerderTags: motivational
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 HerderThe universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human,
local, civil, and national freedom
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
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