Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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

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

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

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

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

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

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

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.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

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

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.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

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

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

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

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

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

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

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

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

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

Love is the reward of love.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

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

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

I feel an army in my fist.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Art is the right hand of Nature.