Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Great souls suffer in silence.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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2. “The strong man is strongest when alone.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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3. “Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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4. “It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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5. “His saying was: live and let live.”

— Friedrich Schiller

6. “Dare to be wrong and to dream.”

— Friedrich Schiller

7. “Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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8. “What is life without the radiance of love?”

— Friedrich Schiller

9. “Even the weak become strong when they are united.”

— Friedrich Schiller

10. “Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”

— Friedrich Schiller

11. “Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.”

— Friedrich Schiller

12. “Appearance rules the world.”

— Friedrich Schiller

13. “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?”

— Friedrich Schiller

14. “Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”

— Friedrich Schiller

15. “Deep meaning lies often in childish play.”

— Friedrich Schiller

16. “A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.”

— Friedrich Schiller

17. “I am my own heaven and hell!”

— Friedrich Schiller

18. “Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”

— Friedrich Schiller

19. “To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.”

— Friedrich Schiller

20. “A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”

— Friedrich Schiller

21. “Art is the daughter of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

22. “When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.”

— Friedrich Schiller

23. “Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.”

— Friedrich Schiller

24. “Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.”

— Friedrich Schiller

25. “Wise to resolve, patient to perform.”

— Friedrich Schiller

26. “Fear of death is worse than dying.”

— Friedrich Schiller

27. “Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.”

— Friedrich Schiller

28. “Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.”

— Friedrich Schiller

29. “Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

30. “Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.”

— Friedrich Schiller

31. “What’s old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.”

— Friedrich Schiller

32. “Honesty prospers in every condition of life.”

— Friedrich Schiller

33. “The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”

— Friedrich Schiller

34. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”

— Friedrich Schiller

35. “The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

— Friedrich Schiller

36. “A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.”

— Friedrich Schiller

37. “The key to education is the experience of beauty.”

— Friedrich Schiller

38. “The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.”

— Friedrich Schiller

39. “Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.”

— Friedrich Schiller

40. “There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

— Friedrich Schiller

41. “No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

42. “Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”

— Friedrich Schiller

43. “To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.”

— Friedrich Schiller

44. “The dream is short, repentance long.”

— Friedrich Schiller

45. “Truth is more than a dream and a song.”

— Friedrich Schiller

46. “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

47. “Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.”

— Friedrich Schiller

48. “The first great law is to obey.”

— Friedrich Schiller

49. “Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.”

— Friedrich Schiller

50. “In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.”

— Friedrich Schiller