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"20 Alexander von Humboldt Quotes & Sayings

      Prussian     /    
Born: 14 September 1769. Died: 6 May 1859 | Polymath | Geographer | Naturalist | Explorer |
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Nature Soothing Mind Tormented
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There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Stages Scientific Discovery People
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True Enjoyment Activity Mind
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Government Best Makes Unnecessary
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Convinced Happiness Unhappiness Depends
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Great Evil Immorality Forget
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Person Masters Fate Important
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Citizen Indifferent Fellows Husband
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

War Seems Salutary Phenomena
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Usually Important Man Meets
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Education Races Cultured Advance
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Only Wrought Character Life
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With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Animals Man Alertness Diminishes
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The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Philosophical Nature Endeavors Vicissitudes
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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
Nature Soothing Tormented Mind
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The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

Dangerous Worldview Never Viewed
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Cruelty Animals Significant Vices
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