Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Interpretation
True honor comes from within and is shaped by our own heart rather than by others' judgments.
Friedrich Schiller's quote emphasizes the importance of self-perception and integrity in defining one's honor. He suggests that external opinions should not dictate how we view ourselves; instead, our self-worth and honor are determined by our personal values, thoughts, and inner nobility. This concept challenges societal norms that often place too much weight on public perception and advocates for being true to oneself in the pursuit of honor.
In practice
During a motivational speech on self-worth and integrity.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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.
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.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.
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