Quotes by : Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

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

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

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....

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

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What....

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