Quotes By Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I am better than my reputation.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

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

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

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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

To save all we must risk all.

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

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Great souls suffer in silence.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

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.

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.

The will of man is his happiness.