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 HerderAll our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
Johann Gottfried HerderThose that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
Johann Gottfried HerderThe 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