Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 12

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• You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Race, Order, Individuality

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wind, Together, Ants

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• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Pain, Struggle

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

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• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Causes, Force, Righteous

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• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Ideas, Poetry

  Friedrich Schiller (1981). “On the naive and sentimental in literature”

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• There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Evil, Deeds

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• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Hands, Bridges

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146

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• Stern is the visage of necessity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  "Wallenstein's Tod". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 4. 45, 1799.

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• It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Justice, Literature, World

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Winning, Venture, Prize

  Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Running, Errors, Goal

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Men, Brave

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.577

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• The first great law is to obey.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Law, Firsts, Obedience

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.48

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• Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Stars, Prayer

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Children, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Thinking, Quiet

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• A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

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  Grace, Soul, Triumph

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3732, Delphi Classics

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• Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Giving, Common

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.196

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• Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Dies

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.262

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• I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
  I have lived and loved.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Enjoyed

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sympathy, Art, Soul

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• Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Believe, Dark, Destiny

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Advice, Safe

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