19 Quotations by Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- 1. Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei ...

- 2. Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exerci ...

- 3. How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

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

- 5. I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me ...

- 6. If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in ...

- 7. If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, ...

- 8. If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o ...

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

- 10. Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the e ...

- 11. Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it ...

- 12. Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, in ...

- 13. The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

- 14. The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h ...

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

- 16. War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not wi ...

- 17. We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards r ...

- 18. When we devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of it ...

- 19. Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the ...

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