Famous quotes containing the words wilhelm von, 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)
“But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)