Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 9

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• I am better than my reputation

  Friedrich Schiller

  Reputation

  Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume Two”, p.285, Oberon Books

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• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Men, Hands

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• O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
  One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Ocean, Boat

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

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• The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Kings, Pride, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.260

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• To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

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  Science, Cows, Goddess

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• Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Sides, Sunny

  "Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.

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• Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Age, Gray

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• 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.

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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• Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Beautiful, Flower, Birth

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• Truth is more than a dream and a song.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Song, Truth

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.147

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• No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

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  Nature, Ocean, Swim

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• Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Night, Clouds, Hopeful

  "Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Dust, Names

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• From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fear, Moments

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• The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Soul, Like You, Weak

  "Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love)". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act V, Scene VII), April 13, 1784.

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Flames, Funeral

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• O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Slumber, Backgrounds, Knows

  "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. i, 1787.

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• It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Clouds, Building, Poor

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• Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Missing, Bows, Rigor

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• 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.

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  Heart, Angel, Dark

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  God, Self, Demand

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• What shall he fear that does not fear death.

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  Death, Dying, Doe

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• The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Art, Mean

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3324, 谷月社

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