"Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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41 Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit…
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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…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which…
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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…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has…
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Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.
— Michele Bachmann
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies…
— John Bolton
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Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived…
— Clive James
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a…
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
— Marya Mannes
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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,…
— Helen Keller
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities…
— Boris Johnson
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion…
— Irene Khan
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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