Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Literature
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Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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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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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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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.
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Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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The key to education is the experience of beauty.
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Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
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Art is the daughter of freedom.
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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.
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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
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It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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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.
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