“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.”
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of 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.”
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
― Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.”
― Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species
― Humboldt: 'On Language': On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species
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