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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

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