Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

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Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

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All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

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To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

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