Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Character, Men

• Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Energy, Results

• The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Acting, Energy, Spontaneous

• Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Rights, Hands

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 2, 1792.

• Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Choices

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