"No matter how good or great a man……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt
"No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him."
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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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