Famous quotes containing the words wilhelm, final and/or years:
“Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (17671835)
“He valued emotionnot for itself, but because it is the only final path to intimacy.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“But to wish is first to think,
And to think is to be dumb,
And barren of a word to drop
That to a milder shore might come
And, years ahead, erect a crop.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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