Wilhelm von Humboldt

Quotes

• “True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
• “Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.”
• “How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
• “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.”
• “The most beautiful, perhaps the only true, philosophical song existing in any known tongue.”
• “I read the Indian poem for the first time when I was in my country estate in Silesia and, while doing so, I felt a sense of overwhelming gratitude to God for having let me live to be acquainted with this work. It must be the most profound and sublime thing to be found in the world.”

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