Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”

— Friedrich Schiller

52. “It is play and only play that makes man complete.”

— Friedrich Schiller

53. “Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”

— Friedrich Schiller

54. “The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”

— Friedrich Schiller

55. “Live with your century; but do not be its creature.”

— Friedrich Schiller

56. “Man is only fully human when he plays!”

— Friedrich Schiller

57. “On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.”

— Friedrich Schiller

58. “He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.”

— Friedrich Schiller

59. “Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.”

— Friedrich Schiller

60. “Modest humility is beauty’s crown.”

— Friedrich Schiller

61. “Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.”

— Friedrich Schiller

62. “As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.”

— Friedrich Schiller

63. “Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow – No night but hath its morn.”

— Friedrich Schiller

64. “Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.”

— Friedrich Schiller

65. “The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.”

— Friedrich Schiller

66. “Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.”

— Friedrich Schiller

67. “The world’s history is the world’s judgment.”

— Friedrich Schiller

68. “If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”

— Friedrich Schiller

69. “Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!”

— Friedrich Schiller

70. “If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

71. “A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”

— Friedrich Schiller

72. “Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”

— Friedrich Schiller

73. “The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.”

— Friedrich Schiller

74. “Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

75. “He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”

— Friedrich Schiller

76. “What is the short meaning of the long speech?”

— Friedrich Schiller

77. “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.”

— Friedrich Schiller

78. “Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”

— Friedrich Schiller

79. “Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.”

— Friedrich Schiller

80. “To save all we must risk all.”

— Friedrich Schiller

81. “Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.”

— Friedrich Schiller

82. “The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”

— Friedrich Schiller

83. “Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.”

— Friedrich Schiller

84. “Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.”

— Friedrich Schiller

85. “In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”

— Friedrich Schiller

86. “Even weak men when united are powerful.”

— Friedrich Schiller

87. “I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.”

— Friedrich Schiller

88. “To the fool-king belongs the world.”

— Friedrich Schiller

89. “I am better than my reputation.”

— Friedrich Schiller

90. “Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.”

— Friedrich Schiller

91. “There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.”

— Friedrich Schiller

92. “Will it, and set to work briskly.”

— Friedrich Schiller

93. “Freedom exists only with power.”

— Friedrich Schiller

94. “He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.”

— Friedrich Schiller

95. “Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

— Friedrich Schiller

96. “It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.”

— Friedrich Schiller

97. “Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”

— Friedrich Schiller

98. “It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”

— Friedrich Schiller

99. “In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.”

— Friedrich Schiller

100. “The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.”

— Friedrich Schiller