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.
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…
- 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… - 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…
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.
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. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance a… - Alexander Von Humboldt
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance a…
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 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.
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…
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wis… - Alexander Von Humboldt
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wis…
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