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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
— 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
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
— Charles Lyell
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
