99 Quotes by Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Modul în care un om îşi acceptă destinul este mai important decît însuşi destinul său.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough respect for true humanity as it is visible in the persons of the totally uneducated classes, and never enough humility if one sometimes believes one is superior to them.

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

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

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

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