Friedrich Schiller - Man Quotes

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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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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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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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The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

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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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There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow, —
No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, —
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, —
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, —
Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.

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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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If man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through Beauty that man makes his way to Freedom.

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Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

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The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

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On the mountains there is freedom!
The world is perfect everywhere,
Save where man comes with his torment.

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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

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When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.

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Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

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Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.

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Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

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