We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Friedrich SchillerI know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
Friedrich SchillerBe noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich SchillerTo one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
Friedrich SchillerThe reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.
Friedrich Schiller