Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

103. “Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

— Friedrich Schiller

104. “It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.”

— Friedrich Schiller

105. “It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.”

— Friedrich Schiller

106. “Courage, ne’er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!”

— Friedrich Schiller

107. “Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.”

— Friedrich Schiller

108. “Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

109. “There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”

— Friedrich Schiller

110. “O God, how lovely still is life!”

— Friedrich Schiller

111. “Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.”

— Friedrich Schiller

112. “A healthy nature needs no God or immortality.”

— Friedrich Schiller

113. “In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.”

— Friedrich Schiller

114. “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.”

— Friedrich Schiller

115. “Misery travels free through the whole world!”

— Friedrich Schiller

116. “Obedience is the Christian’s crown.”

— Friedrich Schiller

117. “Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.”

— Friedrich Schiller

118. “Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.”

— Friedrich Schiller

119. “This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.”

— Friedrich Schiller

120. “We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.”

— Friedrich Schiller

121. “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.”

— Friedrich Schiller

122. “Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.”

— Friedrich Schiller

123. “If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.”

— Friedrich Schiller

124. “Time flies on restless pinions – constant never.”

— Friedrich Schiller

125. “Man is an imitative creature.”

— Friedrich Schiller

126. “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

127. “That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.”

— Friedrich Schiller

128. “It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.”

— Friedrich Schiller

129. “Truth lives on in the midst of deception...”

— Friedrich Schiller

130. “The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”

— Friedrich Schiller

131. “He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.”

— Friedrich Schiller

132. “Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”

— Friedrich Schiller

133. “It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.”

— Friedrich Schiller

134. “Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.”

— Friedrich Schiller

135. “When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”

— Friedrich Schiller

136. “Day’s lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.”

— Friedrich Schiller

137. “Love can sun the realms of night.”

— Friedrich Schiller

138. “The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.”

— Friedrich Schiller

139. “Life is earnest, art is gay.”

— Friedrich Schiller

140. “It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

141. “On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.”

— Friedrich Schiller

142. “We shall be free, just as our fathers were.”

— Friedrich Schiller

143. “Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”

— Friedrich Schiller

144. “Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.”

— Friedrich Schiller

145. “O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.”

— Friedrich Schiller

146. “He who considers too much will perform little.”

— Friedrich Schiller

147. “A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.”

— Friedrich Schiller

148. “Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

— Friedrich Schiller

149. “Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”

— Friedrich Schiller

150. “Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.”

— Friedrich Schiller