Top 356 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Schiller - Page 3

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Love is the reward of love.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

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

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

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.

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Love can sun the realms of night.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Freedom exists only with power.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

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.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

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.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

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

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, 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?

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Stubbornness is not firmness.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

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

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

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.

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

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.