Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
• Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
• 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.
• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
• It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
• It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
• In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
• I am better than my reputation.
• Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
• He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
• He who considers too much will perform little.
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
• Great souls suffer in silence.
• Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
• The universe is one of God's thoughts.
• With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
• Will it, and set to work briskly.
• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
• Votes should be weighed not counted.
• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
• To save all we must risk all.
• To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
• They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
• The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
• The will of man is his happiness.
• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
• The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
• Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
• Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
• The key to education is the experience of beauty.
• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
• The strong man is strongest when alone.
• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
• All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
• Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
• A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
• A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
• A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
• Appearance rules the world.
• Art is the daughter of freedom.
• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
• Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
• Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
• Every true genius is bound to be naive.
• Freedom can occur only through education.
• Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.