Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Quotes

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt in Pleasure quotes.

"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."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt in Family quotes.

"Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt in Character quotes.

"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt in Fate quotes.

"If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt