Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Happiness

Men

Taken

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Accomplish

Impossible

Tasks

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved – all the arts flourish more gracefully – all the sciences extend their range.

Art

Men

Range

Death is but a word to us. One’s own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,–how and when the spirit wakes to life again,–this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

Death

Real

Sight

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

Mean

Plans

Sorrow

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

Ends

Results

Thinking

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don’t, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Degrees

Men

Teaching

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

Degrees

Feelings

Views

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Evil

Men

Middle Path

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Evil

Numbers

Police

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Accomplish

Age

Anxiety

Art

Association

Beautiful

Character

Choices

Contentment

Creative

Death

Degrees

Depth

Development

Different

Doe

Duty

Ends

Evil

Eye

Fall

Fate

Feelings

Garden

Gay

Government

Gratitude

Grief

Growing Up

Hands

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Impossible

Inspirational

Inspire

Instruments

Long

Machines

May

Mean

Men

Middle Path

Mind Love

Nature

Numbers

Performances

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Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved – all the arts flourish more gracefully – all the sciences extend their range.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

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

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don’t, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

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