Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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The dream is short, repentance long.
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Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.
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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.
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Obedience decks the Christian most.
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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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.
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Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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The universe is a thought of God.
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No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
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To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
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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.
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Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
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Accursed be he who plays with the devil.
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Virtue is no empty echo.
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What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
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Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
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It is play and only play that makes man complete.
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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.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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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.
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Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
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O God, how lovely still is life!
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Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.
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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.
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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.
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
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