Knows Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

10 Knows quotes by Friedrich Schiller

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Schiller’s poetic gravitas shines through ten short passages, offering a fleeting but potent sense of how the German dramatist approached understanding.

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If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

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I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

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To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

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It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we…

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Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

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It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands…

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Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool…

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Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of…

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

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I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

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Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

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It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

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The first great law is to obey.

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

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Even the weak become strong when they are united.

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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…

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Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found…

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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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