“Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.”
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“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.”
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“For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.”
― 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
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