Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 11

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• Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
  Pass the days of life's short measure,
  From the slow one counsel take,
  But a tool of him ne'er make;
  Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
  Nor the constant one as foe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Tools, Pleasure

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

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• Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Sweet, Eye

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.15

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• Life is earnest, art is gay.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Gay, Life Is

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Simplicity, Mind

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• Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Play, Devil

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 192-93, Wallenstein's Tod, 1. 3. 64, 1922.

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• Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soil, Strange, Thrive

  "Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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• But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, Age, Sides

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Work, Done, May

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.224

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• Even weak men when united are powerful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Powerful, Men, Weak Man

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Complaining

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• Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honesty, Chains, Being True

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Chains, Silk

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Restless, Constant

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Jealousy, Envy, Trifles

  Friedrich Schiller (1849). “Early Dramas and Romances”, p.135

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• An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, May, Rogues

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• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Play, Literature

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3621, Delphi Classics

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• Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Father, Land, Native

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• To the fool-king belongs the world.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Kings, World, Fool

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Deep Meaning, Customs

  "Maria Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene 7, line 131), June 14, 1800.

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• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spy, Done, World

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• When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Eye, Joy

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• A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

  Friedrich Schiller

  Healthy, Needs, Immortality

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• On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Sunshine, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.81

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• Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Nature, Men, Flames

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.270, Executive Intelligence Review

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• In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Creative, Mind

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