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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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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right…
— Michele Bachmann
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
— James A. Baldwin
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To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
— Rumi
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You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if…
— Wally Schirra
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
— John Ruskin
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Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
— Groucho Marx
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Daniel Defoe
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that…
— Anatole France
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What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God,…
— Francis of Assisi
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All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have…
— Rajneesh
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...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body…
— Francis of Assisi
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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind…
— Michael Lewis
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