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Johann Gottfried Herder

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

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Johann Gottfried Herder

It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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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Johann Gottfried Herder

The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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

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.