Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

His saying was: live and let live.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Freedom exists only with power.

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

He who considers too much will perform little.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

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.

The 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.

I am better than my reputation

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Virtue is no empty echo.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

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.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.