Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean. - Alexander Von Humboldt
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
- Alexander Von Humboldt
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace every… - Alexander Von Humboldt
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace every…
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of t… - Alexander Von Humboldt
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of t…
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. - Alexander Von Humboldt
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusi… - Alexander Von Humboldt
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusi…
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. - Alexander Von Humboldt
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of impo… - Alexander Von Humboldt
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of impo…
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. - Alexander Von Humboldt
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which th… - Alexander Von Humboldt
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which th…
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