Friedrich Schiller > Quotes

“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
― Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

“To save all we must risk all.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Live with your century, but do not be its creature.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“We shall be free, just as our fathers were.”
― Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell

“I feel an army in my fist.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Die Räuber

“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the heart of men.

Have hope! though clouds environ round,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.

Have love! not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brother call,
And scatter like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.”
― Friedrich Von Schiller

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice”
― Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart

“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
― Frederich Schiller

“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
― Johann Von Schiller

“Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Unsere Träume, Unsere Sehnsüchte, und bunten Hoffnungen wollen ernst und wichtig genommen werden.

Wer sie verdrängt, unterdrückt das Beste in sich und wird ein leerer Mensch.”
― Schiller

“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”
― Johann Schiller

“Our age is enlightened... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians?”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. 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 creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.”
― Friedrich von Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans

“On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.”
― Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller, Die Braut von Messina

“Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I have this living, overpowering feeling within me: from now on you can love nothing other than her, and in this world nothing else will ever have any effect on you.”
― Friedrich Schiller