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Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes

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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer’s thinking.  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Language makes infinite use of finite media  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) The government is best which makes itself unnecessary  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation’s culture as its language  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) When we... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don’t, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) In order to bring about the transition from the condition of the present to another newly resolved on, every reform should be allowed to proceed as much as possible from men’s minds and thoughts  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) All merit ceases the moment we perform an act for the sake of its consequences. Truly, in this respect we have our reward  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes) Providence certainly does not favor individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the instruction and ennoblement of all  (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
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