Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should w — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence. — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways. — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is to — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be t — Wilhelm von Humboldt, Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt