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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 unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture…
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When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing…
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
— Moliere
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