Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

— Friedrich Schiller

I am my own heaven and hell!

— Friedrich Schiller

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

— Friedrich Schiller

Obedience decks the Christian most.

— Friedrich Schiller

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

— Friedrich Schiller

To the fool-king belongs the world.

— Friedrich Schiller

Misery travels free through the whole world!

— Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

— Friedrich Schiller

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

— Friedrich Schiller

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

— Friedrich Schiller

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

— Friedrich Schiller

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

— Friedrich Schiller

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

— Friedrich Schiller

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

— Friedrich Schiller

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

— Friedrich Schiller

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

— Friedrich Schiller

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or…

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

— Friedrich Schiller

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous…

— Friedrich Schiller

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

— Friedrich Schiller

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

— Friedrich Schiller

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities…

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I…

— Friedrich Schiller

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to…

— Friedrich Schiller

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around…

— Friedrich Schiller

Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what…

— Friedrich Schiller

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error,…

— Friedrich Schiller

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his…

— Friedrich Schiller

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping…

— Friedrich Schiller

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to…

— Friedrich Schiller

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into…

— Friedrich Schiller

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and…

— Friedrich Schiller

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same…

— Friedrich Schiller

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,…

— Friedrich Schiller

Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in…

— Friedrich Schiller

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it…

— Friedrich Schiller

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which…

— Friedrich Schiller