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Johann Gottfried Herder
(25 Aug 1744 - 18 Dec 1803)
German philosopher who was active in the Sturm und Drang movement, and helped lay basis of German Romanticism. He was among the first to publish studies of comparative religion and mythology.
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Science Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder (1)
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1803). Translated from 1784 Original, Vol. I, Book 10, 465-6.
