Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
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My son, there's nothing insignificant,Nothing! But yet in every earthly thingFirst and most principal is place and time.
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Lo, the dead shall rise to heaven!Brethren hail the blest decree;Every sin shall be forgiven,Hell forever cease to be!
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.
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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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What the inner voice saysWill not disappoint the hoping soul.
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I have only an office here, and no opinion.
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Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
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Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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Life is earnest, art is gay.