Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him. - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.
- Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is. - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
Language makes infinite use of finite media. - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still r… - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still r…
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospec… - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospec…
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less … - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less …
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. … - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. …
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation. - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
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… - Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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…
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