Friedrich Schiller Quotes

To save all we must risk all.

~ Friedrich Schiller

There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from thy brow,No night but hath its morn.Have love! not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call,And scatter like the circling sun,Thy charities on all.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

~ Friedrich Schiller

O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

~ Friedrich Schiller

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.

~ Friedrich Schiller

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass.

~ Friedrich Schiller

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

~ Friedrich Schiller

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

~ Friedrich Schiller

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

~ Friedrich Schiller

I feel an army in my fist.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.

~ Friedrich Schiller

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

~ Friedrich Schiller

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

~ Friedrich Schiller

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

~ Friedrich Schiller

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

~ Friedrich Schiller

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

~ Friedrich Schiller

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

~ Friedrich Schiller

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

~ Friedrich Schiller

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

~ Friedrich Schiller

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

~ 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

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

~ Friedrich Schiller

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

~ Friedrich Schiller

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

~ Friedrich Schiller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

~ Friedrich Schiller

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

~ Friedrich Schiller

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

~ Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

~ Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

~ Friedrich Schiller