Top 356 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Schiller - Page 6

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Even weak men when united are powerful.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

I feel an army in my fist.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Intellect--brain force.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

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.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

His saying was: live and let live.

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.