Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exerci...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards r...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial ...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the e...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not wi...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though h...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not wi...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial co...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Language makes infinite use of finite media.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet t...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interestin...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspec...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
HUMBOLDT I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
KARL VON FRISCH I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
KARL VON FRISCH I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
KARL VON FRISCH After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vie...
KARL VON FRISCH War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep t...
KARL VON BONSTETTEN War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. T...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for t...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on t...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the province of danger.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the r...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in wa...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of j...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities ...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and en...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
KARL VON FRISCH Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dw...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consumin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separati...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothin...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chao...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. Ther...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and est...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion nece...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men i...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic scie...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written aga...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNITZ It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ Literature is the immortality of speech.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Literature is the immortality of speech
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a han...
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier tha...
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the e...
ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music
FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, t...
WILHELM WUNDT I didn't think; I experimented.
WILHELM ROENTGEN The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...
WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
WILHELM STEKEL You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...
WILHELM REICH I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...
WILHELM REICH It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...
WILHELM REICH You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, eve...
WILHELM REICH Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...
WILHELM REICH You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one...
WILHELM STEKEL Anxiety is fear of one's self.
WILHELM STEKEL The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms th...
WILHELM REICH The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...
WILHELM REICH Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense per...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, wit...
WILHELM WUNDT Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
WILHELM STEINITZ The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the cont...
WILHELM WUNDT I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM CANARIS As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But the...
DOUG WILHELM The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can ...
WILHELM OSTWALD On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is g...
WILHELM DILTHEY As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackl...
WILHELM WIEN The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the conc...
WILHELM OSTWALD Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in ...
WILHELM WIEN In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and fac...
WILHELM WUNDT If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the ...
WILHELM KEITEL Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
KAISER WILHELM If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the tota...
WILHELM DILTHEY In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than ...
WILHELM OSTWALD Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destr...
WILHELM REICH Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensabl...
WILHELM WUNDT On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, wh...
WILHELM WUNDT No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but ra...
WILHELM DILTHEY All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity...
WILHELM DILTHEY The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychol...
WILHELM WUNDT By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the...
WILHELM FRICK The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature m...
WILHELM STEKEL The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the matur...
WILHELM STEKEL From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
WILHELM DILTHEY Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot...
JOE WILHELM My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
WILHELM FRICK This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Con...
WILHELM KEITEL Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
WILHELM KEITEL I understand there are some differences between the hotel industry and the gaming industry. Why the ...
JOHN WILHELM Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
WILHELM STEINITZ The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always ...
WILHELM DILTHEY Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold bet...
WILHELM WUNDT Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediatel...
WILHELM OSTWALD For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...
WILHELM OSTWALD From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the...
WILHELM WUNDT The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hyp...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the fact...
WILHELM WUNDT According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of abso...
WILHELM WIEN We have some really loyal people with us who helped to brand the Franklin name and reputation. We wi...
WILHELM MEYA I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
WILHELM STEINITZ Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
WILHELM STEINITZ A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
WILHELM STEINITZ Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...
WILHELM REICH The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regar...
WILHELM WUNDT The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the in...
WILHELM WUNDT The refutation of a sacrifice frequently consists in its acceptance.
WILHELM STEINITZ To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one'...
WILHELM DILTHEY