F. C. S. Schiller Quotes

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

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

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

What is life without the radiance of love?

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

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.

Appearance rules the world.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

He who considers too much will perform little.

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

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.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

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.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

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

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

The first great law is to obey.

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

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

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

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

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

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

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

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

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

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!