Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated...

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

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes o...

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the beli...

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

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes o...

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in gr...

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, o...

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out i...

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? W...

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interestin...