Friedrich Schiller Quotes

"No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Time, Artist, Doubt, Favorite)

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Mankind, Will)

"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Man, Meaning, Word)

"Keep true to the dreams of your youth."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Dreams, Youth)

"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Life, Body, Fame, Name, Possessions)

"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long."
- Friedrich Schiller

"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Advice, Safety)

"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Truth, Voice)

"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Greatness, Blame, Fortune, Guilt)

"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Work, Ideas, Intellect, Mind)

"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Majority, Right)

"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Society, People, Machine)

"I am better than my reputation."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Reputation)

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Life, Honesty)

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Time)

"He who considers too much will perform little."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Will)

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Change)

"Great souls suffer in silence."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Silence)

"Live with your century; but do not be its creature."
- Friedrich Schiller

"The universe is one of God's thoughts."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: God, Thoughts, Universe)

"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Gods, Struggle, Stupidity)

"Will it, and set to work briskly."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Work, Will)

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Hope, Nothing)

"Votes should be weighed not counted."
- Friedrich Schiller

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Age, Service)

"To save all we must risk all."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Risk)

"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Fighting, Gain)

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Love, Wisdom, Order)

"There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."
- Friedrich Schiller

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Accident, Chance, Destiny)

"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Consideration, World)

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Beauty, Freedom, Grace, Influence)

"The will of man is his happiness."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Happiness, Man, Will)

"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Destiny, May)

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Error, Humanity, Struggle, Want)

"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Honor, Nation)

"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Opposition)

"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Peace)

"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Posterity)

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Power, Rhetoric)

"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Action, Senses)

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Death)

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Justice, Majority, Proof, Voice)

"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: History, Court, Justice, World)

"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: First, Jest)

"The key to education is the experience of beauty."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Beauty, Education, Experience, Key)

"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Poor, World)

"The strong man is strongest when alone."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Man)

"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Nothing)

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Food, Delight, Despair, End, Murder, Revenge)

"All things must; man is the only creature that wills."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Man)

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Time)

"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Wisdom, Fate)

"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Enemy, May)

"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Heart, Reason, Will)

"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Gods, Stupidity)

"A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Wedding, Guest)

"Appearance rules the world."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Appearance, Rules, World)

"Art is the daughter of freedom."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Art, Daughter, Freedom)

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Art, Men, Nature, Being, Right)

"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Friend, Mercy, Sun, World)

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Men, Heart, Honor, Opinions)

"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Dream, Deep, Lies, Meaning)

"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Soul, Disappointments)

"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Genius)

"Freedom can occur only through education."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Education, Freedom)

"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Society, Development)