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Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes
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In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
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 of the human mind (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative? (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man’s primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man’s true freedom; it alone determines his real character (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines (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)
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united (Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes)
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation (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)
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