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> [“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is a free searching self perfecting being, it follows that the state is a profoundly anti human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-von-humbolt-1792/the-state-tends-to-make-man-an-instrument-to-serve-its-arbitrary-ends/)

Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792

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## More by Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792

> [“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-von-humbolt-1792/the-state-tends-to-make-man-an-instrument-to-serve-its-arbitrary-ends/)

Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792

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