Frederick II Quotes

"What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?"
- Frederick II
(Related: Experience)

"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
- Frederick II
(Related: People, Agreement)

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
- Frederick II
(Related: Right)

"He who defends everything defends nothing."
- Frederick II
(Related: Nothing)

"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."
- Frederick II
(Related: Heaven, Man)

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
- Frederick II
(Related: Old, Pleasure, World)

"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
- Frederick II
(Related: Religion, Mob)