Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Anxiety

• Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Choices

• Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Energy, Results

• All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Numbers

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.

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