Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

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

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

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

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

The mind is the eyesight of the soul.

Great souls endure in silence.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

The universe is a thought of God.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

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

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

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

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

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Freedom exists only with power.

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

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.