The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conc… - Johann Gottfried Herder

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

Johann Gottfried Herder

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Johann Gottfried Herder (or von Herder) (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German poet, philosopher, literary critic and folksong collector. He is remembered as a theorist of the Sturm und Drang movement, and as a decisive influence on the young Goethe.

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Alternative Names: Johann Gottfried von Herder • Herder • Johann Gottfried

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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

I am no longer misled, therefore, by the mechanism of revolutions: it is as necessary to our species, as the waves to the stream, that it becomes not a stagnant pool. The genius of humanity blooms in continually renovated youth.

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