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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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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

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

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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 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

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 The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also...
WILHELM DILTHEY

A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se ...
WILHELM REICH

Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psycholo...
WILHELM REICH The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is res...
WILHELM REICH Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?
WILHELM GRIMM When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to th...
WILHELM REICH I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...
WILHELM REICH It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...
WILHELM REICH For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...
WILHELM REICH I was given a bath, a new prisoner uniform in decent shape, and moved to another block.
WILHELM BRASSE The allegation that two BND agents had Saddam Hussein's plan for defending the Iraqi capital and, on...
ULRICH WILHELM However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysi...
WILHELM DILTHEY Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.
WILHELM STEKEL Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
WILHELM STEKEL In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
WILHELM STEKEL . . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical fee...
WILHELM REICH Music is always noise-relatedAnd often not appreciated.
WILHELM BUSCH Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous
WILHELM STEKEL Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough
WILHELM BUSCH I did the close-ups, in harsh light, and you could see to the bone.
WILHELM BRASSE Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
WILHELM STEKEL Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are op...
WILHELM STEKEL A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
WILHELM STEINITZ Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. ...
WILHELM REICH Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin.
WILHELM REICH Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
WILHELM REICH The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
WILHELM REICH Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
WILHELM REICH If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions ge...
WILHELM DILTHEY Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system. It depends on the consciousness on...
WILHELM REICH It's not completely accurate to say it didn't freeze at all [this year], because there were some day...
JOE WILHELM I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete o...
WILHELM OSTWALD Max and Moritz for their part found no attraction in it.
WILHELM BUSCH Youth should heed the older-wittedWhen they say, don't go too far --Now their sins are all committed...
WILHELM BUSCH Becoming a father isn't difficult,But it's very difficult to be a father.
WILHELM BUSCH The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a...
WILHELM REICH That the idea of God represents the conscience, the internalized admonitions and threats from parent...
WILHELM REICH The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.
WILHELM REICH Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...
WILHELM REICH Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. ...
WILHELM REICH Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase
Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.
WILHELM BUSCH Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
WILHELM REICH The soldier headed out to war is in the best position. He can unleash his aggressions on his enemy a...
WILHELM STEKEL Bear yourselves as Huns of Attila.
KAISER WILHELM Up high, the flies are playing,And frolicking, and swaying.The frog thinks: Dance! I knowYou'll end ...
WILHELM BUSCH In the meantime, on the sly,Something's going on up high.Max has shown some foresight here,For he br...
WILHELM BUSCH People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.
WILHELM STEKEL Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world
KAISER WILHELM I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
WILHELM STEINITZ Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
WILHELM BODE Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the h...
WILHELM DILTHEY Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clear...
WILHELM REICH Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...
WILHELM REICH Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions m...
WILHELM REICH Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had ...
WILHELM WUNDT The allegation that two BND agents had Saddam Hussein's plan for defending the Iraqi capital and, on...
ULRICH WILHELM The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical element...
WILHELM WUNDT Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
WILHELM WUNDT Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sci...
WILHELM WUNDT Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. WILHELM REICH What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of...
WILHELM REICH I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.
WILHELM REICH Hence, what he wants—and it is openly admitted—is to implement nationalistic imperialism with me...
WILHELM REICH We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possibl...
WILHELM OSTWALD I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t ...
WILHELM REICH People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...
WILHELM REICH The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordinatio...
WILHELM DILTHEY Leaving the AFL-CIO has nothing to do with saving money, ... It has to do with redirecting that mone...
JOHN WILHELM Chess is not for timid souls.
WILHELM STEINITZ We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts int...
WILHELM WUNDT A third emotional source of the defense forces is the sadistic conception of sexuality that the chil...
WILHELM REICH It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself...
WILHELM REICH Our friends and neighbors really stepped up to the plate for the folks down south.
GAYLE WILHELM We receive no federal dollars. We're federally mandated to respond to disasters, but our money comes...
GAYLE WILHELM There was quite a bit of interest in it. We're very excited that the generator will stay in the area...
GAYLE WILHELM We're living on the top of a pyramid,' he had said, 'supported by the massive base, rising above it,...
KATE WILHELM It's not just grandma's house we have to worry about. Now it's God's house, too.
HEATHER WILHELM The fact is, if the state decides that it needs to spend more money they bring it back to the people...
HEATHER WILHELM

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

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