If something possesses no capacity for activity.... : Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

“ If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. ”

Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • From : Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
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