Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.”

— Friedrich Schiller

152. “There is no solitude in nature.”

— Friedrich Schiller

153. “Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.”

— Friedrich Schiller

154. “I feel that I am a man of destiny.”

— Friedrich Schiller

155. “We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.”

— Friedrich Schiller

156. “Misanthropy is a slow suicide.”

— Friedrich Schiller

157. “To be man’s tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.”

— Friedrich Schiller

158. “It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made.”

— Friedrich Schiller

159. “The world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”

— Friedrich Schiller

160. “Virtue is no empty echo.”

— Friedrich Schiller

161. “Votes should be weighed not counted.”

— Friedrich Schiller

162. “Innocence has a friend in heaven.”

— Friedrich Schiller

163. “Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.”

— Friedrich Schiller

164. “No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.”

— Friedrich Schiller

165. “What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.”

— Friedrich Schiller

166. “Satisfy a few to please many is bad.”

— Friedrich Schiller

167. “The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”

— Friedrich Schiller

168. “There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man’s unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

169. “An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.”

— Friedrich Schiller

170. “Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.”

— Friedrich Schiller

171. “You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”

— Friedrich Schiller

172. “The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.”

— Friedrich Schiller

173. “Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?”

— Friedrich Schiller

174. “Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.”

— Friedrich Schiller

175. “Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.”

— Friedrich Schiller

176. “False fancy brings real misery.”

— Friedrich Schiller

177. “A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.”

— Friedrich Schiller

178. “Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.”

— Friedrich Schiller

179. “To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.”

— Friedrich Schiller

180. “One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.”

— Friedrich Schiller

181. “Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”

— Friedrich Schiller

182. “Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.”

— Friedrich Schiller

183. “Let him that sows the serpent’s teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel, – dark misgivings at the inmost heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

184. “Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”

— Friedrich Schiller

185. “Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.”

— Friedrich Schiller

186. “I feel an army in my fist.”

— Friedrich Schiller

187. “Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms...”

— Friedrich Schiller

188. “The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.”

— Friedrich Schiller

189. “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

190. “The May of life blooms once and never again.”

— Friedrich Schiller

191. “The brave person thinks of himself last of all.”

— Friedrich Schiller

192. “We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.”

— Friedrich Schiller

193. “A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

— Friedrich Schiller

194. “Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”

— Friedrich Schiller

195. “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.”

— Friedrich Schiller

196. “The universe is one of God’s thoughts.”

— Friedrich Schiller

197. “The will of man is his happiness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

198. “A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.”

— Friedrich Schiller

199. “Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.”

— Friedrich Schiller

200. “Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.”

— Friedrich Schiller