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Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps in a truer sense its owner, than the listless voluptuary who enjoys its fruits…

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Wilhelm von Humboldt

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt