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Johann Friedrich von Schiller Quotes



Quotes by Johann Friedrich von Schiller - (55 quotes)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Advice category:

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Art category:

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Authority category:

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Beauty category:

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

Even the weak become strong when they are united. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Character category:

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Complaining category:

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, / Who's made the master of his destiny. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Construction category:

- The Mystic Masters Speak! by Vernon Howard...
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Courage category:

Speech is always bolder than action. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Deception category:

Truth lives on in the midst of deception. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Destiny category:

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Disappointment category:

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Dreams category:

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Drunkenness category:

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Ego category:

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Enthusiasm category:

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Fashion category:

Appearance rules the world. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Freedom category:

Freedom exists only with power. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Friendship category:

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Frustration category:

Against stupidity the very gods / Themselves contend in vain. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Genius category:

Every true genius is bound to be naive. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Goodness category:

Nothing leads to good that is not natural. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Grace category:

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Happiness category:

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Hope category:

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Humanity category:

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Humour category:

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Ideas category:

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Imagination category:

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. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Jealousy category:

Jealousy is the great exaggerator. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Joy category:

If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Life category:

What is life without the radiance of love? (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Love category:

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Meaning category:

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Mysteries category:

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Patience category:

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Peace category:

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Perfection category:

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Planning category:

Wise to resolve, patient to perform. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Play category:

Deep meaning lie oft in childish play. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Play category:

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Prosperity category:

Honesty prospers in every condition of life. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Purpose category:

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Risk category:

Who reflects too much will accomplish little. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Silence category:

Great souls endure in silence. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Solitude category:

The strong man is strongest when alone. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Studio category:

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Taste category:

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Time category:

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Timeliness category:

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Truth category:

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Universe category:

The universe is a thought of God. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Unknowns category:

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Wisdom category:

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)

Johann Friedrich von Schiller - From the Writing category:

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)