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Wilhelm von Humboldt has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
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The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.
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Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
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No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss…
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Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most…
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry…
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You might have lost the best man or woman you've ever been with, but if he or she was that great then…
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As I strolled throughout the city, by chance, I alighted upon a military barracks. As I watched, the young cadets were beign…
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I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal…
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