Wilhelm Von Humboldt citáty
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Datum narození: 22. červen 1767
Datum úmrtí: 8. duben 1835
Další jména:Вильгельм фон Гумбольдт
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt byl německý diplomat, filozof, zakladatel Humboldtovy univerzity v Berlíně, přítel Goetha a Schillera a v neposlední řadě významný německý jazykovědec, který evropským zájemcům přiblížil baskičtinu. Mezi jeho nejvýznamnější příspěvky jazykovědě a společenským vědám patří historicky první formulace myšlenek, jež později vešly ve známost jako teorie jazykového relativismu. Jejich základem je stanovisko, že lidé hovořící různými jazyky odlišně chápou svět kolem sebe. Původ jazyka objasňoval metafyzickými úvahami, jazyk je vrozená lidská vlastnost, vytváří duch národa a zrcadlí jeho mentalitu. Jazyk není produktem, ale aktivní silou. Pokoušel se vytvořit srovnávací antropologii jazyků, i proto se jako první z lingvistů zajímal i o živé jazyky. Snažil se klasifikovat jazyky podle jejich struktury, čímž se stal předchůdcem typologie.
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„There are undeniably certain kinds of knowledge that must be of a general nature and, more importantly, a certain cultivation of the mind and character that nobody can afford to be without.“
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Context: There are undeniably certain kinds of knowledge that must be of a general nature and, more importantly, a certain cultivation of the mind and character that nobody can afford to be without. People obviously cannot be good craftworkers, merchants, soldiers or businessmen unless, regardless of their occupation, they are good, upstanding and – according to their condition – well-informed human beings and citizens. If this basis is laid through schooling, vocational skills are easily acquired later on, and a person is always free to move from one occupation to another, as so often happens in life.
As quoted in Wilhelm von Humboldt (1970), by P. Berglar, p. 87, and "Profiles of Educators: Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835)" by Karl-Heinz Günther, in Prospects, Vol. 18, Issue 1 (March 1988)
„Man cannot approach this purely objective realm other than through his cognitive and sensory powers, that is, in a subjective manner.“
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Context: The interdependence of word and idea shows clearly that languages are not actually means of representing a truth already known, but rather of discovering the previously unknown. Their diversity is not one of sounds and signs, but a diversity of world perspectives [Weltansichten]. … The sum of the knowable, as the field to be tilled by the human mind, lies among all languages, independent of them, in the middle. Man cannot approach this purely objective realm other than through his cognitive and sensory powers, that is, in a subjective manner.
As quoted in The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics : A History And Appraisal (1963) by Robert Lee Miller, and The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (2002) by Cristina Lafont
„The incapacity for freedom can only arise from a want of moral and intellectual power; to elevate this power is the only way to counteract this want; but to do this presupposes the exercise of that power, and this exercise presupposes the freedom which awakens spontaneous activity.“
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Context: The incapacity for freedom can only arise from a want of moral and intellectual power; to elevate this power is the only way to counteract this want; but to do this presupposes the exercise of that power, and this exercise presupposes the freedom which awakens spontaneous activity. Only it is clear we cannot call it giving freedom, when fetters are unloosed which are not felt as such by him who wears them. But of no man on earth—however neglected by nature, and however degraded by circumstances—is this true of all the bonds which oppress and enthral him. Let us undo them one by one, as the feeling of freedom awakens in men’s hearts, and we shall hasten progress at every step. There may still be great difficulties in being able to recognize the symptoms of this awakening. But these do not lie in the theory so much as in its execution, which, it is evident, never admits of special rules, but in this case, as in every other, is the work of genius alone.
Ch. 16
