Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

“To save all we must risk all.”

“There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in sc...”

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

“When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its r...”

“It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in iso...”

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

“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. Y...”

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

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

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

“I feel an army in my fist.”

“Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that c...”

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

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

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice”

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

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

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

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

“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”