Wilhelm Von Humboldt said this quote

“ 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. ”

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Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt