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

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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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• True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

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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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• It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

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• How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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• The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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• 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.

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Wilhelm von Humboldt (11)

Birth:	22nd June, 1767
Death:	8th April, 1835
Nationality:	Prussian
Profession:	Diplomat, Philosopher

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