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“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 (1767–1835)

“Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“Where there is plenty of light there is strong shadow.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)