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Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes: Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.
         

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.


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To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.



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The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.



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If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.



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To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?



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