Quotes by : Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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