Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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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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Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.
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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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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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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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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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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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Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
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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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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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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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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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Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
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Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
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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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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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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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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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Life is earnest, art is gay.
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.