Top 356 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Schiller - Page 2

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

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

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.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

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

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

What is life without the radiance of love?

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Speech is always bolder than action.

Great souls endure in silence.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

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

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

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

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

The mind is the eyesight of the soul.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Man is an imitative creature.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Virtue is no empty echo.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

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

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

The universe is a thought of God.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

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

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.