More from Wilhelm von Humboldt

  1. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
  2. Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and …
  3. How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
  4. 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 natur…
  5. Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, but yet re…
  6. The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance-nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentou…
  7. The true end of Man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient …
  8. Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom t…

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