Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Sweet, Nature

• Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Life, Eye, Men

• Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Inspirational, Sleep, Eye

• The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Eye, Two, Design

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

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