quote of the week

“Dull half-image and shadow of the word! The whole living painting of manners of life, of habits, needs, peculiarities of lands and skies would have to follow later or to have preceded; one would first have to sympathize with a nation to feel a single of its inclinations and actions, to feel them all together, to find one word, to think all in its richness: or else one reads...a word.”
(Johann Gottfried Herder, Another Philosophy of History for the Education of Mankind (1774))