Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

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

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

To save all we must risk all.

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

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

I feel an army in my fist.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the s...

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

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

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

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

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

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...

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

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is un...

There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal lig...

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

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

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

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

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

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

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the ...

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

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

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an ex...

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

The strong man is strongest when alone.