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Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
«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 events themselves.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Happiness
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am, convinced, convinces, depends, events, far, in any event, I am, meet, Meet The, more and more, on the way, themselves, The Way, unhappiness
«The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world / to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.»
«Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.»
«Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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disposed, dominion, Eye of, gladden, gladdening, gladdens, protects, rears, rises, servants, structure, the Master, uplifted
«However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.»
«Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.»
«If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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accurate, calculation, exceed, regulation, regulations
«It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Fate
«Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Character