“Individuality and Modernity,” Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 66.
“Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 3
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Wilhelm Von Humboldt 35
German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, dipl… 1767–1835Related quotes

Address to the Swedish Academy (20 December 1954)
Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (1971)

vol. 1, p. 131
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)

Source: Between Man and Man (1965), p. 148

Source: Philosophy, Science and Art of Public Administration (1939), p. 661