Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

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

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Great souls suffer in silence.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

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

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.

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

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

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

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

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

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

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.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

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

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

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

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

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

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

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

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

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

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.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

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