Frases de Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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“Era un estadista de la talla de Pericles.”

“Cuanto menos se lleve a cabo, más corta parece la vida.”

“El mejor gobierno es aquel que se hace superfluo.”

“En el fondo, son las relaciones con las personas lo que da sentido a la vida.”

“Es increible la fuerza que el alma puede infundir al cuerpo.”

“La manera en que una persona toma las riendas de su destino es más determinante que el mismo destino.”

“No solamente es inútil, sino loco, el no adaptarse serena y tranquilamente a lo irrevocable.”

“Nunca está más entonado el ánimo del hombre como cuando ha encontrado un trabajo adecuado.”

“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”

“To the yoke of necessity every one willingly bows the head. Still, wherever an actually complicated aspect of things presents itself, it is more difficult to discover exactly what is necessary; but by the very acknowledgment of the principle, the problem invariably becomes simpler and the solution easier.”

“First delight, then instruct.”

“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.”