Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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.
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.
What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
