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Men Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
- It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
- Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects…
- It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which…
- If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature…
- A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
- To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have…
- Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for…
- No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
- Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they…
- However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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