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Johann Gottfried Herder

Data di nascita: 25. Agosto 1744
Data di morte: 18. Dicembre 1803

Johann Gottfried Herder è stato un filosofo, teologo e letterato tedesco.

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Frasi Johann Gottfried Herder

„il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Su Dio

„Da un po' d'aria mossa dipende tutto quello che mai gli uomini hanno pensato, voluto, fatto e quanto faranno di umano sulla terra.“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
da Idee per la filosofia della storia dell'umanità

Sugli uomini

„Il sentimento è la misura della nostra sensibilità; la vera origine del vero, del buono, del bello!“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
da Studi e progetti

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

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Context: 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? Vol. 2, p. 79; translation vol. 2, pp. 113-14.

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

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Context: 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. "Die wiedergefundenen Söhne" [The Recovered Sons] (1801) as translated in The Monthly Religious Magazine Vol. 10 (1853) p. 445.

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

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

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Context: Whate'er of us lives in the hearts of others Is our truest and profoundest self. "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.

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

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Context: 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. 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.

„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 Herder

„Air, fire, water and the earth evolve out of the spiritual and material staminibus in periodic cycles of time. Diverse connections of water, air, and light precede the emergence of the seed of the simplest plant, for instance moss. Many plants had to come into being, then die away before an animal emerged. Insects, birds, water animals, and night animals preceded the present animal forms; until finally the crown of earthly organization appeared—the human being, microcosm. He is the son of all the elements and beings, Nature’s most carefully chosen conception and the blossom of creation. He must be the youngest child of Nature; many evolutions and revolutions must have preceded his formation.“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Book 1, as cited in Frank Teichmann (tr. Jon McAlice), "The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe" http://www.waldorfresearchinstitute.org/pdf/BAIdeaEvolTeich.pdf

„The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Christoph Martin Wieland (ed.) Der deutsche Merkur vol. 20 (1781) p. 214; cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin Weidmann, 1888) vol. 15, p. 307. Translation from Maturin M. Ballou Pearls of Thought (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881) p. 13.

„The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
Vol. 1, p. x; translation vol. 1, p. xi.

„"Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much?"
By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!“

— Johann Gottfried Herder
"Der Weg zur Wissenschaft"; cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin Weidmann, 1887-1913) vol. 26, p. 376. Translation by Thomas Carlyle, from Clyde de L. Ryals and Kenneth Fielding (eds.) The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995) vol. 23, p. 160.