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Friedrich Schiller
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“I feel an army in my fist.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1781 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Räuber (The Robbers), Act II (1781)
“To save all we must risk all.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fiesco, in Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy (1783) Act IV, Sc vi
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. xviii (1783)
“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1784 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)
“Votes should be weighed, not counted. Sooner or later, the state will be wrecked In which majority rules, and ignorance decides.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1804 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Demetrius (1804-1805)
“Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1786 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Resignation (1786)
“What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1786 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Resignation (1786)
“What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hope, last stanza (1797)
“If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but in vain.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1796 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "Choice"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
“Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1796 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
“Man is created free, and is free, Though he be born in chains.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 2 (1797)
“Virtue is no empty echo.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 3 (1797)
“O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1799 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Song of the Bell (1799)
“Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1800 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage (1800)
“Life is only error, And death is knowledge.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cassandra (1802)
“What are hopes, what are plans?”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act III, sc. v (1803)
“Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. iv (1803)
“On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. vii (1803)
“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”
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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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“Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — And motionless forever stands the Past.”
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“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 324
“Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,— 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,— Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited bt Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 284
“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Grosse Seelen dulden still.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act I, sc. iv ; as translated by R. D. Boylan and Joseph Mellish (1902)
“A moment lived in paradise Is not atoned for too dearly by death.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.”
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“Liebe ist nur dem bekannt, der hoffnungslos in der Liebe beharrt”
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“KING PHILIPP II: Can you establish some new creed to justify my bloody murder of my only son? GRAND INQUISITOR: To appease eternal justice and redeem us, God's own Son was killed on the wooden cross. KING: And can you spread this creed throughout all Europe? GRAND INQUISITOR: Far and wide, everywhere people worship the cross.”
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“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.”
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“Be embraced, ye millions! This kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the arch of stars A loving Father surely dwells.”
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“Welcome, all ye myriad creatures! Brethren, take the kiss of love!”
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“He, that noble prize possessing— He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!”
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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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“Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round”
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“Joy from truth's own glass of fire Sweetly 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!”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the Gods we ne'er can render Praise for every good they grant; Let us, with devotion tender, Minister to grief and want. Quenched be hate and wrath forever, Pardoned be our mortal foe— May our tears upbraid him never, No repentance bring him low!”
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“Sense of wrongs forget to treasure— Brethren, live in perfect love! In the starry realms above, God will mete as we may measure.”
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“Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!”
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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!”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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?”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”
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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.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source