Friedrich Schiller Quotes

The universe is a thought of God.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Love can sun the realms of night.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Love is the reward of love.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

I feel an army in my fist.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Man is an imitative creature.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.