Famous quotes containing the words wilhelm von, otto, wilhelm and/or von:
“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.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)
“Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.”
—Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)