Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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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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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
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Appearance rules the world.
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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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Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
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Grosse Seelen dulden still.
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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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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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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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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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Joy from truth's own glass of fireSweetly on the searcher smiles;Lest on virtue's steeps he tire,Joy the tedious path beguiles.High on faith's bright hill before us,See her banner proudly wave!Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave!
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Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
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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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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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Bow before him, all creation!Mortals, own the God of love!Seek him high the stars above,-Yonder is his habitation!
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.