Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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

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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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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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When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

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

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Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

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Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

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A free life is worth a few hours of slavery.

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If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

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Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

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He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

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Mystery ever is that which lies broad open to all men; Circles you round and round, yet not a body observes.

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Threefold is the form of space: Length, with ever restless motion, Seeks eternity's wide ocean; - Breadth with boundless sway extends; Depth to unknown realms descends.

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Tell me no more, I pray, of your suns and nebulous hazes; Think you Nature is vast only to set you a sum? Nothing in infinite space is so august as your object, But there is nought august, friend, in indefinite space.

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Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

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Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

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So the Astronomer's art lays out the chart of the heavens Better his way to steer through inaccessible space...

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You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

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The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

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Just because thou readest in Nature what thou hast written, Just because thine eye all her phenomena marks, Reckoning on the bonds which man upon Nature imposes, Does thy mind presume infinite Nature to know?

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Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

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A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

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The dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

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As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

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A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

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Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.

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Of the Nebulae and planets do not babble so to me; What! is Nature only mighty inasmuch as you can see? Inasmuch as you can measure her immeasurable ways, As she renders world on world, sun and system to your gaze? Though through space your object be the Sublimest to embrace, Never the Sublime abideth - where you vainly search - in space!

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Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

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Make thy lasting abode where fixed Eternity dwelleth! Come, ye varying hues, come and illuminate man!

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Man plays only when he is in the full sense of the word a man, and he is only wholly Man when he is playing.

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