Johann Gottfried Herder citáty

„Jak lidé žijí a myslí, tak také stavějí a sídlí.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Zdroj: [Burke, Peter, 1996, Italská renesance, Mladá fronta, 1., 38, 80-204-0589-5]

„Život nám byl dán k práci, lásce a zušlechtění.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Náhoda a čas jsou dva největší tyrani.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Knihy je třeba číst s takovou rozvahou a opatrností, s jakou byly napsány.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Jedna dobrá matka znamená víc než sto učitelů.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Nejstarší úděl života je něco anebo někoho tak vroucně milovat, aby proto musel člověk nenávidět jiné.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Ježíš přišel a řekl: "Jděte a milujte se!" Nedomyslel však tak obrovský lidský úkol. Vždyť jen k tomu, aby se lidé alespoň snášeli, je třeba nadlidského úsilí; a jak nezměrného úsilí by pak bylo třeba k tomu, aby se lidé milovali? I když jsou lidé sourozenci, nikdy nebudou bratry a sestrami.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Srdce člověka prahne po jiném srdci, nenalézá-li je však, postačí si samo sobě.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Jací jsme, takoví budou naše děti.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Varianta: Jací jsme my, takové jsou naše děti.

„Ze všech chvastounů je nejpošetilejší ten, který se holedbá svou národností.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„Rodit je lidské, ale plodit je božské.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Varianta: Rodit je lidské, ale plodnost je božská.

„Pracovitost zavírá dveře neřesti.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

„[India is the] lost paradise of all religions and philosophies," "the cradle of humanity," and also its "eternal home," and the great Orient "waiting to be discovered within ourselves."... "mankind's origins can be traced to India, where the human mind got the first shapes of wisdom and virtue with simplicity, strength and sublimity which has - frankly spoken - nothing, nothing at all equivalent in our philosophical, cold European world."... "O holy land (India), I salute thee, thou source of all music, thou voice of the heart' ... "Behold the East - cradle of the human race, of human emotion, of all religion."“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Quotes by Herder about India. Quoted from Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication. (quoting Ghosh, Pranebendranath Johann Gottfried Herder's Image of India (1900)p334, Singhal, Damodar P India and world Civilization Rupa and Co Calcutta 1993 p. 231)

„Should there not be manifest progress and development but in a higher sense than people have imagined it? … No one is in his age alone, he builds on the preceding one, this becomes nothing but the foundation of the future, wants to be nothing but that — this is what we are told by the analogy in nature, God’s speaking exemplary model in all works! Manifestly so in the human species!“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

"This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity" ["Auch eine Philosophie zur Geschichte der Menscheit"] (1774), as translated by Michael N. Forster, in Johann Gottlieb von Herder: Philosophical Writings (2002), edited by Michael N. Forster, p. 299

„Whate'er of us lives in the hearts of others
Is our truest and profoundest self.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Was in dem Herzen andrer von Uns lebt,
Ist unser wahrestes und tiefstes Selbst.
"Das Selbst, ein Fragment", cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 29, p. 142; Translation from Hans Urs von Balthasar (trans. Graham Harrison) Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988) vol. 1, p. 504.

„Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

"Die wiedergefundenen Söhne" [The Recovered Sons] (1801) as translated in The Monthly Religious Magazine Vol. 10 (1853) p. 445. <!-- * Tapfer ist der Löwensieger,<br/>Tapfer ist der Weltbezwinger,<br/>Tapfrer, wer sich selbst bezwang.— cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 28, p. 237. -->
Kontext: 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.

„A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Briefe, das Studium der Theologie betressend (1780-81), Vierundzwanzigster Brief; cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 10, p. 260. Translation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria (London: Rest Fenner, 1817) vol. 1, ch. 11, pp. 233-34.
Kontext: With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor.

„How transitory all human structures are, nay how oppressive the best institutions become in the course of a few generations.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

Vol. 2, p. 79; translation vol. 2, pp. 113-14.
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)
Kontext: How transitory all human structures are, nay how oppressive the best institutions become in the course of a few generations. The plant blossoms, and fades: your fathers have died, and mouldered into dust: your temple is fallen: your tabernacle, the tables of your law, are no more: language itself, that bond of mankind, becomes antiquated: and shall a political constitution, shall a system of government or religion, that can be erected solely on these, endure for ever?

„Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways.“

—  Johann Gottfried Herder

"Die wiedergefundenen Söhne" [The Recovered Sons] (1801) as translated in The Monthly Religious Magazine Vol. 10 (1853) p. 445. <!-- * Tapfer ist der Löwensieger,<br/>Tapfer ist der Weltbezwinger,<br/>Tapfrer, wer sich selbst bezwang.— cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 28, p. 237. -->
Kontext: 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.