Wilhelm von Humboldt
Biography
Quotes
- Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
- True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.
- 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 nature of those events themselves.
