Quote by Friedrich von Schiller Download Open image ““Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?”” — Friedrich von Schiller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” — Cavafy Copy Share Image
“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.” — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“I do not feat that the barbarians shall invade. I fear that we shall become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Chaikinrles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“I do not fear that the barbarians shall invade, but that we should become barbarians before they do.” — Joseph Charles MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.” — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“how a people who had raised such mighty works, could have allowed themselves to be conquered by illiterate barbarians.” — Ross Laidlaw Copy Share Image
“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships. Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.” — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Gegen die Dummheit kämpfen selbst die Götter vergebens ("Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain")” — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
“When the Creator banished from his sight Frail man to dark mortality's abode, And granted him a late return to light, Only by treading… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
“The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“So it has reached this pass? Obedience and fear take flight together?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
“The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image