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Herder   /hˈɛrdər/  /hˈərdər/   Listen
Herder

noun
1.
German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803).  Synonym: Johann Gottfried von Herder.
2.
Someone who drives a herd.  Synonyms: drover, herdsman.



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"Herder" Quotes from Famous Books



... Becker, Christian Education, or the Duties of Parents. Herder, $1.00. A striking presentation of the Roman Catholic view; could be read to advantage ...
— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope

... road the Younger Son must tread, Ere he win to hearth and saddle of his own,— 'Mid the riot of the shearers at the shed, In the silence of the herder's hut alone— In the twilight, on a bucket upside down, Hear me babble what the weakest won't confess— I am Memory and Torment—I am Town! I am all that ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

... seen the sun or the sky for so long that I was hungry for it. In Omaha I fell in with a bunch of cattlemen and, as I always liked to handle stock, that settled it. I accepted an offer as herder; they didn't call it that, but it amounted to the same. I had a half-dozen ponies, rations for six months, and something under a thousand head of stock to look after. By comparison it wasn't work at all; only I was all alone and it took all the ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... been inclined to scoff at this apparition as a heretical innovation, there was still the story of Concepcion, the Demon Vaquero, whose terrible riata was fully as potent as the whaler's harpoon. Concepcion, when in the flesh, had been a celebrated herder of cattle and wild horses, and was reported to have chased the Devil in the shape of a fleet pinto colt all the way from San Luis Obispo to San Francisco, vowing not to give up the chase until he had overtaken the disguised Arch-Enemy. This the Devil prevented by resuming ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... in my heart—joy which fed upon itself and increased each moment. Don't you remember what Herder says? Let but the heart once awake, and wave follows wave ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson


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