Friedrich Schiller famous quotes

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Time #Focus #Loser

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspiring #Graduation #Dream

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Happiness #You Make Me Happy #Endurance

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Intelligence #Genius #Literature

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Spiritual #Spring #Destiny

Art is the daughter of freedom.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Mother #Daughter #Art

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Leadership #Patience #Learning

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Literature #Natural

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

#Life #Home #Secret Love

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Lying #Play #Deep Meaning

Votes should be weighed not counted.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Election #Vote #Should

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Sleep #Thinking #Lions

Modest humility is beauty's crown.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Humility #Crowns #Modest

Even the weak become strong when they are united.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Strong #Unity #Weak

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Power #Persuasive #Rhetoric

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Heart #Power #Emperor

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

#Wise #Long #Literature

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Healthy #Needs #Immortality

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Childhood #Taught #Fairy Tale

The will of man is his happiness.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Willpower

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Time #Thinking #Quiet

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

#Literature #Century #Creatures

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

#Fighting #Power #Crowns

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Perfect #Mountain

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Morning #Land #Gates

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Drinking #Food #Wine

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

#Beautiful #Soul #Merit

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Loyalty #Science #Voice

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

#Friendship #Forgiveness #World

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Past #Forever #Stills

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspirational #Beauty #Grace

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspirational #Disappointment #Fear

He who considers too much will perform little.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Littles #Too Much

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Stupid #Ignorance #Vain

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Love #Peace #Literature

Freedom can occur only through education.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Education

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

#Greatness #Guilt #Crowns

Great souls endure in silence.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Silence #Soul #Endure

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Beautiful #Joy #Suffering

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Art #Men #Hands

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

#Time #Children #Artist

Great souls suffer in silence.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Silence #Soul #Suffering

Dare to be wrong and to dream.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Dream #Dare

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

#Honor #Doe #Stakes

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Hope #Voice #Soul

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Evil #Deeds #Curse

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 Schiller

#Cutting #Men #Circles

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Law #Duty #Enjoyment

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Life #Rose #Glory

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspirational #Wise #Dream

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Nature #Men #Flames

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Inspirational #Courage #New Life

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Love #Romantic #Romantic Love

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Freedom #Differences #Forbidden

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Joy #Sorrow #Endless

The key to education is the experience of beauty.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Keys

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Acceptance #Moments #Neglect

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Brave #Hazards

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Education #School #Men

Will it, and set to work briskly.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Work

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.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Different #Relationships Ending

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.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Night #Clouds #Hopeful

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Ideas #Creative #Mind

Man is an imitative creature.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Creatures

To save all we must risk all.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Risk

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.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Art #Wall #Eye

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

#Sweet #Stars #World

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Wise #Patient #Resolve

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Wise #Order #Needs

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.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Lying #Ideas #Imagination

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

#Happiness #Thinking #Not Happy

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Jealousy #Trifles

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Ideas #Judgement #Links

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#People #Great People #Persecution

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Thinking #Brave #Lasts

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#God #Self #Demand

Truth lives on in the midst of deception....
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Truth #Deception #Midst

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Wise #Littles #Accomplish

I am better than my reputation
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Reputation

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Heart #Noble #Reason

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Humanity #Occupation

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Adversity #School #May

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Causes #Force #Righteous

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Names #Profound #Joy

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Wind #Storm

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Bears #Reputation #Worst

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Men #Heaven #Purpose

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Moving #Joy #Dominion

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Heart #Hypocrisy #Yoke

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Soul #Grace #Noble

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Real #Ideas #Poetry

Obedience is the Christian's crown.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Christian #Crowns #Obedience

The first great law is to obey.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Law #Firsts #Obedience

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

#Sympathy #Art #Soul

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Eye #Garden #Temptation

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Women #Rose #Honor

Never the grave gives back what it has won!
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Giving #Giving Back #Graves

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Spring #Flower #Fading

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Fall #Sunshine #Night