Alexander von humboldt quotes

„Die Natur muss gefühlt werden. 1 „Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben. 2 „Man muss die Zukunft abwarten und die Gegenwart genießen oder ertragen. 3 Like. “I am more and more. 4 Alexander von Humboldt Quotes 47 Sourced Quotes Nature can only exercise a magical power over us as long as their action is shrouded in mystery and darkness, and does not admit of being classed among the conditions with which experience has made us acquainted. Alexander von Humboldt. 5 Quotes Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. As quoted in Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion () by Anna Cabot Lowell, Vol. 1, p. 6 Alexander von Humboldt. I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Life Nature Happiness I. Alexander von Humboldt. How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. 7 Alexander von Humboldt, in full Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander, Freiherr (baron) von Humboldt, (born September 14, , Berlin, Prussia [now in Germany]—died May 6, , Berlin), German naturalist and explorer who was a major figure in the classical period of physical geography and biogeography —areas of science now included in the. 8 Alexander von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most important naturalist of the 19th century. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in , places American art squarely in the center of a conversation on Humboldt’s lasting influence on the way we think. 9 However, between the s and s Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most widely admired public figures in the world. Humboldt, who died at 89, traveled on four continents, wrote more than. alexander von humboldt zitate bildung 10