Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 8

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• On the mountains there is freedom!
  The world is perfect everywhere,
  Save where man comes with his torment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Perfect, Mountain

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

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• Doch zittre vor der langsamen,
  Der stillen Macht der Zeit.
  Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Silent, Silent Power

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Future, Adventure

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• O that it might remain eternally green,
  The beautiful time of youthful love.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Green

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• The will of man is his happiness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Men, Willpower

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• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, Forgiveness, World

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• 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

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• Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Joy, Breastfeeding, Drink

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• The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

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• Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Reality, Conquer

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1839). “Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller”, p.222

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ebb And Flow, Tides, Judgment

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina”, p.246

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• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, Ignorance, Vain

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Causes, Harsh

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: History of the revolt of the Netherlands, continued. Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell”, p.510

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• 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

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• The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Thinking, Brave Person, Lasts

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• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.5, 谷月社

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• In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Circles, Growth

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Arms, Lists

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Birthday, Power, Idols

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Blessing, Love Is, Noble

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

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• The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

  Friedrich Schiller

  1801 DieJungfrau von Orle ans, act1, sc.5.

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• Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Arrows, Forever

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

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• Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Coward, Done, Action

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