Less Offensive Quotes by Alexander von Humboldt

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Alexander von Humboldt has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
• Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
• At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa…
• Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number…
• Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
• Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.
• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind,…
• People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a…
• Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those…
• Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute…

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