Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

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Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

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

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When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

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Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,
When the wheel of time goes round

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The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.

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For this should the singer accompany the king: Both dwell on the heights of mankind.

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Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.

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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The power, the beauty, and the majesty
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,
Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,
Or chasms and watery depths, — all these have vanished;
They live no longer in the faith of reason.

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

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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

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The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
Of the imagination dominates;
And his are all things that eschew the light.
The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
And the dark work, complete of preparation,
He draws by force into the realm of light.
Now must we hasten on to action, ere
The scheme, and most auspicious positure
Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

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Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
Brethren, live in perfect love!
In the starry realms above,
God will mete as we may measure.

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Appearance should never attain reality,
And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

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A moment lived in paradise
Is not atoned for too dearly by death.

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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.

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

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

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The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my own dominions never sets.

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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.

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The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

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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.

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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

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Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.

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Yet tremble at the slow,
silent power of time.

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Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —
And motionless forever stands the Past.

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Deeper meaning resides in the fairytales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life.

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A gracious sovereign throws his portals wide,
Admitting every guest, excluding none;
As freely as the firmament the world,
So mercy must encircle friend and foe.

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