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Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

— Johann Gottfried Herder Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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

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

Each strives with each, as each is pressed upon; each must provide for his own subsistence, and defend his own life.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Übers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele (1774)

Nowhere on earth does the rose of happiness blossom without thorns; but what bursts forth out of these thorns is everywhere and in various guises the transient, yet beautiful rose of man's joy in living.

Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784)

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