Frasi di Alexander Von Humboldt

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt è stato un naturalista, esploratore, geografo e botanico tedesco.

Era il fratello minore dello statista e intellettuale Wilhelm von Humboldt. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Settembre 1769 – 6. Maggio 1859   •   Altri nomi Александр фон Гумбольдт, Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt
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Alexander Von Humboldt Frasi e Citazioni

“La crudeltà nei confronti degli animali non è conciliabile né con una vera cultura né con una vera erudizione. Essa è una dei vizi caratteristici di un popolo rozzo e ignobile.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Animal Agenda 2012, Terra Nuova edizioni, Firenze, 2011, 25 aprile. ISBN 88-88819-82-2

Alexander Von Humboldt: Frasi in inglese

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more enobled by mental cultivation than others, but none in themselves nobler than others.”

Alexander von Humboldt libro Kosmos

Kosmos (1845 - 1847)
Contesto: While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more enobled by mental cultivation than others, but none in themselves nobler than others. All are in like degree designed for freedom; a freedom which, in the ruder conditions of society, belongs only to the individual, but which, in social states enjoying political institutions, appertains as a right to the whole body of the community.

“In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated.”

Equinoctial Regions of America (1814-1829)
Contesto: In order to ameliorate without commotion new institutions must be made, as it were, to rise out of those which the barbarism of centuries has consecrated. It will one day seem incredible that until the year 1826 there existed no law in the Great Antilles to prevent the sale of young infants and their separation from their parents, or to prohibit the degrading custom of marking the negroes with a hot iron, merely to enable these human cattle to be more easily recognized.

“The principal impulse by which I was directed was the earnest endeavor to comprehend the phenomena of physical objects in their general connection, and to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces.”

Alexander von Humboldt libro Kosmos

Kosmos (1845 - 1847)
Contesto: The principal impulse by which I was directed was the earnest endeavor to comprehend the phenomena of physical objects in their general connection, and to represent nature as one great whole, moved and animated by internal forces. My intercourse with highly-gifted men early led me to discover that, without an earnest striving to attain to a knowledge of special branches of study, all attempts to give a grand and general view of the universe would be nothing more than a vain illusion. These special departments in the great domain of natural science are, moreover, capable of being reciprocally fructified by means of the appropriative forces by which they are endowed.

“A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.”

Alexander von Humboldt libro Kosmos

Kosmos (1845 - 1847)
Contesto: From the remotest nebulæ and from the revolving double stars, we have descended to the minutest organisms of animal creation, whether manifested in the depths of ocean or on the surface of our globe, and to the delicate vegetable germs which clothe the naked declivity of the ice-crowned mountain summit; and here we have been able to arrange these phenomena according to partially known laws; but other laws of a more mysterious nature rule the higher spheres of the organic world, in which is comprised the human species in all its varied conformation, its creative intellectual power, and the languages to which it has given existence. A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.

“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 (1856) by Anna Cabot Lowell, Vol. 1, p. 260

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