Friedrich Schiller Quotes

219 quotes in 1810 categories

• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
• Great souls endure in silence.
• Where there is much freedom there is much error.
• Freedom exists only with power.
• One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
• Love is the reward of love....
• Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
• If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
• Dare to be wrong and to dream.
• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
• The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
• Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
• Speech is always bolder than action.
• Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
• The will of man is his happiness.
• Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
• To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
• Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
• Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

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