"How a person masters his or her fate……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt
"How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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41 Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt has 41 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes.…
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More Fate Quotes
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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