“How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.”
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Famous Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
“Language makes infinite use of finite media.”
Source: Linguistic variability & intellectual development
“Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.”
Source: The Limits of State Action
“Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.”
“A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”
“Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.”