Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German Author, Philosopher, Theologian, Poet and Literary Critic
"There is nothing in man that must be held in check as the imagination - the most mobile and most dangerous of all our capacities."
"Whoever perseveres will be crowned."
"The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished."
"The working of revolutions 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."
"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent."
"What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self."
"Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves."