Quote of Wilhelm von Humboldt ? - The most dangerous worldview is the...

Biography - Wilhelm von Humboldt:

Born: 1767 - Died: 1835
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

Wilhelm von Humboldt ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

Translation

(French, German)

La vision du monde la plus dangereuse est celle de ceux qui n'ont jamais vu le monde.

Wilhelm von Humboldt - Citation d'origine incertaine

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die der Leute, welche die Welt nie angeschaut haben.

Wilhelm von Humboldt - Zitat unbekannter Herkunft

Quotes about danger:

But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin - Patmos /

danger

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler /

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables /

It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

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Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

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Wilhelm von Humboldt also said...

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Wilhelm von Humboldt /

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.

Wilhelm von Humboldt /

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

wisdom

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