Wilhelm Von

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    “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.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    “Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)