Wilhelm von Humboldt
Philosopher
1767-06-22
Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt
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To judge a man means nothing other 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?
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All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
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Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
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Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
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All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
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Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
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Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
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To judge a man means nothing other 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?
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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.
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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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.
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
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A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
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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?
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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.
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