Famous Quotes

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

• A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
• Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
• Art is the daughter of freedom.
• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
• Every true genius is bound to be naive.
• Freedom can occur only through education.
• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
• He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
• In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
• 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.
• Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
• Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
• Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
• Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
• The key to education is the experience of beauty.
• The strong man is strongest when alone.
• The will of man is his happiness.
• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
• They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
• Will it, and set to work briskly.