Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Power, Emperor

• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

• If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
  If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Knowledge, Wish

• O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
  The golden time of first love!
  The eye sees the open heaven,
  The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
  O that the beautiful time of young love
  Could remain green forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Sweet

  "The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.

• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

• Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Fate, Voice

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich Schiller (1847). “The Piccolomini; or, The first part of Wallenstein. Tr. from Schiller. The death of Wallenstein”, p.86

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, People, Looks

• As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Inspiration, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Knowledge

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

• The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Games

• The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Fate

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

• 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

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Beauty, Wise, Truth

  "Don Carlos". Play by Friedrich Schiller, IV. 21. 186, 1783-1787.

• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Heaven, Darkness

• A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Noble, Reason

• Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Angel, Dark

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Yoke

  Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Live Life, Heart, Sorrow

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.80

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  F. Lamport, Friedrich Schiller (1979). “The Robbers and Wallenstein”, p.474, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Pain, Heart, Ornaments

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.

• I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, My Heart, I Can

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Grief, Heart, Mourning

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