Friedrich Schiller

O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.

— Friedrich Schiller

A moment lived in paradiseIs not atoned for too dearly by death.

— Friedrich Schiller

I am calledThe sun in my dominion never sets.

— Friedrich Schiller

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

— Friedrich Schiller

KING PHILIPP II: Can you establish some new creed to justify my bloody murder of my only son?GRAND INQUISITOR: Far and wide, everywhere people worship the cross.

— Friedrich Schiller

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Where thy happy wing-beats are.

— Friedrich Schiller

Be embraced, ye millions!A loving Father surely dwells.

— Friedrich Schiller

Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!Brethren, take the kiss of love!

— Friedrich Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

— Friedrich Schiller

He, that noble prize possessing—Let him join the chorus too!

— Friedrich Schiller

Bow before him, all creation!Yonder is his habitation!

— Friedrich Schiller

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,When the wheel of time goes round

— Friedrich Schiller

Joy from truth's own glass of fireBursts the bondage of the grave!

— Friedrich Schiller

To the Gods we ne'er can renderNo repentance bring him low!

— Friedrich Schiller

Sense of wrongs forget to treasure— God will mete as we may measure.

— Friedrich Schiller

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken!Truth alike to friend and foe!

— Friedrich Schiller

Lo, the dead shall rise to heaven!Hell forever cease to be!

— Friedrich Schiller

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

— Friedrich Schiller

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

— Friedrich Schiller

They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

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

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

— Friedrich Schiller

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Life is earnest, art is gay.

— Friedrich Schiller

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

— Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

— Friedrich Schiller

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

— Friedrich Schiller

My son, there's nothing insignificant,First and most principal is place and time.

— Friedrich Schiller

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

— Friedrich Schiller

The intelligible forms of ancient poets,They live no longer in the faith of reason.

— Friedrich Schiller

In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

— Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

— Friedrich Schiller

You say it as you understand it.

— Friedrich Schiller

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

— Friedrich Schiller

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

— Friedrich Schiller

I have only an office here, and no opinion.

— Friedrich Schiller

Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.

— Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

— Friedrich Schiller

Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

— Friedrich Schiller

There's no such thing as chance;Springs from the deepest source of destiny.

— Friedrich Schiller

What is life without the radiance of love?

— Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

— Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

— Friedrich Schiller

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

— Friedrich Schiller

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

— Friedrich Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

— Friedrich Schiller

This feat of Tell, the archer, will be toldBy heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

What's old collapses, times change,And new life blossoms in the ruins.

— Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

— Friedrich Schiller

The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.

— Friedrich Schiller

The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

— Friedrich Schiller

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, — through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

— Friedrich Schiller

It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.

— Friedrich Schiller

Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.

— Friedrich Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

— Friedrich Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

— Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

— Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

— Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

— Friedrich Schiller

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

— Friedrich Schiller

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

— Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

— Friedrich Schiller

I feel an army in my fist.

— Friedrich Schiller

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

— Friedrich Schiller

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

— Friedrich Schiller

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

— Friedrich Schiller

Translation: World history is the world's court.

— Friedrich Schiller

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

— Friedrich Schiller

What the inner voice saysWill not disappoint the hoping soul.

— Friedrich Schiller

If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but in vain.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Man is created free, and is free,Though he be born in chains.

— Friedrich Schiller

Virtue is no empty echo.

— Friedrich Schiller

O tender yearning, sweet hoping!Could remain green forever.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

I am better than my reputation.

— Friedrich Schiller

Who dares impede my progress? Who presume Till I've accomplished the commands of God.

— Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

— Friedrich Schiller

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

— Friedrich Schiller

Life is only error,And death is knowledge.

— Friedrich Schiller

What are hopes, what are plans?

— Friedrich Schiller

Don't let your heart depend on thingsHe who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

— Friedrich Schiller

On the mountains there is freedom!Save where man comes with his torment.

— Friedrich Schiller

Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.

— Friedrich Schiller

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! And motionless forever stands the Past.

— Friedrich Schiller

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,—The inhabitants of earth.

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller