Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (1767–1835) was a German philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949.
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It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt
Topics: Acceptance
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
—Wilhelm von Humboldt
Topics: Happiness, Attitude, Life
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