“Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?” GivingChildrenLongIdeasSelfSometimesMomentsEarthSecretWonderBreakSeriesPossessionStreamsReincarnationConcealedInfallibleUtteranceRaindrops Author:Johann Gottfried Herder
“Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.” WorldMayChildrenCountryFormHumanityLanguageRaceWifeRevolutionGeniusLaborPropertyWaveStreamsCustomsOne LoveMisleadStagnantMarshes Author:Johann Gottfried Herder
“The 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” ChildrenRealWholeLife IsJoyOpinionWifeActivityQuietShadowSpeciesSavagesTribes Book:Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
