Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

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

Great souls suffer in silence.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

He who considers too much will perform little.

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

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

I am better than my reputation.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

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

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.

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

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

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.

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

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

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.