All Alexander von Humboldt Quotes
- Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. Blow
- Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. Equally
- The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. Becomes
- At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean. Bean
- Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts. Advantage
- Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Animal
- Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. Achievement
- Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm… Air
- People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know… Curiosity
- Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not… Dangerous
- Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of… All