Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2024 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. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

155. “There is no solitude in nature.”

— 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. “Virtue is no empty echo.”

— Friedrich Schiller

159. “Votes should be weighed not counted.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

163. “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

164. “Innocence has a friend in heaven.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

171. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

175. “False fancy brings real misery.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

183. “I feel an army in my fist.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

186. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

192. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

196. “Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.”

— Friedrich Schiller

197. “Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller