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From Quotes by Friedrich Schiller
- You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real…
- Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;…
- In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in…
- If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary…
- Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath…
- 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…
- We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a…
- You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
- One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
- If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the…
- Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of…
- There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
- It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
- It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
- 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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