Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
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  • Jazz
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• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Work
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  • Materials

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  • Questions

• Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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  • Instrument

• Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

  

  Al Pacino
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• The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • Subconscious

• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • May
  • Purpose
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• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • End
  • Instrument

• Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Brave
  • Become

• The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

  

  Plato
  • Instrument
  • Flute
  • Moral Effect

• All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Enjoyment
  • Suppose
  • Acts

• Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Get
  • Poems

• But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Serve
  • Instincts
  • Acts

• The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Done
  • Master
  • Acts

• Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Acts
  • Repose

• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Instrument
  • Obedient
  • Goose

• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Sorrows
  • Prone
  • Old Men

• One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Guy
  • Instrument
  • Ruin

• Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Play
  • Instrument

• A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
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  • Drummers
  • Sidetracked

• With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Party
  • Marriage
  • Moral

• The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Instrument
  • Acts
  • Develops