Quotes of Wilhelm Von Humboldt - somelinesforyou

“ True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ When we... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ When we... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ When we... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ When we... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. ”

- Wilhelm von Humboldt
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