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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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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all…
— Victor Hugo
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The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will…
— Tony Robbins
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
— Socrates
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Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
— Euripides
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The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or…
— Terry Orlick
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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
— Samuel Richardson
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The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit hat absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or…
— The Forgoten
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