“All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.” — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
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… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
