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Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“The world loves to blacken the radiant and drag the sublime in the dust.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
Tagged: Life
“The most pious man can't stay in peace

If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
Tagged: Peace, Evil, Neighbors, Pious
“Self-Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”
— Friedrich Schiller, The History of the Thirty Years' War(TREDITION CLASSICS) by Friedrich Schiller (2012-12-21)
Tagged: Self-Confidence
“I feel an army in my fist.”
— Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers and Wallenstein(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Rage, army, fist
“Great souls endure in silence.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos and Mary Stuart(Oxford World's Classics)
Tagged: Stoicism, Silence, Great souls
“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”
— Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Tagged: beauty, Freedom
“Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,

Daughter of Elysium,

Fire drunken we are ent’ring

Heavenly, thy holy home!

Thy enchantments bind together,

What did custom stern divide,

Every man becomes a brother,

Where thy gentle wings abide.
”
— Friedrich Schiller, Ode to Joy
Tagged: Joy, Godly, Heavenly, Poetry
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy
Tagged: joke, Joker, Self-deprecation
“The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
Tagged: Bravery, Fear, Mountain
“Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”
— Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers and Wallenstein(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Forbidden, Permitted
“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Don Carlos and Mary Stuart(Oxford World's Classics)
Tagged: Love, Persistence
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell(German Literary Classics in Translation)
Tagged: Solipsism, Solitude, Strong Man
“One people will we be — a band of brothers;
No danger, no distress shall sunder us.
We will be freemen as our fathers were, 
And sooner welcome death than live as slaves.
We will rely on God's almighty arm,

And never quail before the power of man.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
Tagged: Band of Brothers, danger, Distress, One People, Death, slaves, God
“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
Tagged: Action, Words, Reflection, Insactivity
“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell
Tagged: Weakness, vulnerability, forgiveness
“The universe is a thought of God.”
— Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller
Tagged: Reality, Universe, Thought, God, Consciousness
“Human lives are only error
And with knowledge, death prevails.”
— Friedrich Schiller
Tagged: Life, Error, Death, Knowledge
“They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.”
— Friedrich Schiller, The Complete Works of Fredrich Schiller: Historical Dramas
Tagged: Famous Poets, Wisdom Quotes, Deep Quotes
“All men without distinction, are allured by immediate advantages. Great minds alone are excited by distant good. So long as wisdom in its projects, calculates upon wisdom or relies upon it's own strength, it forms none by chimerical schemes—and runs the risk of making itself the laughter of the world. But it is certain of success, and can reckon upon aid and admiration, when it finds a place in its plans for barbarism, rapacity and superstition and can render the selfish passions of mankind the executor of its purposes.”
— Friedrich Schiller, The History of the Thirty Years' War(TREDITION CLASSICS) by Friedrich Schiller (2012-12-21)
Tagged: distinction, Advantages, Social Status, Barbarism
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