Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Quotes to Explore
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
A. R. Ammons
I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
Candice Olson
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself.
Alejandra Pizarnik
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.
Quentin S. Crisp
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.
M. H. Abrams
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
Kabir
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Lao Tzu
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
Lao Tzu
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
Lao Tzu
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
- "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on" - "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again.
Kiersten White
We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.
Michael McCaul
I've always been about less government.
Kelly Clarkson
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.
William Shakespeare
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
