Explore Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

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.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

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

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.