Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that’s true, He whom woman’s love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!”

— Friedrich Schiller

252. “Never the grave gives back what it has won!”

— Friedrich Schiller

253. “I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.”

— Friedrich Schiller

254. “But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?”

— Friedrich Schiller

255. “What shall he fear that does not fear death.”

— Friedrich Schiller

256. “The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.”

— Friedrich Schiller

257. “Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.”

— Friedrich Schiller

258. “Deaf rage that hears no leader.”

— Friedrich Schiller

259. “Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.”

— Friedrich Schiller

260. “When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love.”

— Friedrich Schiller

261. “If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

— Friedrich Schiller

262. “No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean, – the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

263. “Intellect – brain force.”

— Friedrich Schiller

264. “When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.”

— Friedrich Schiller

265. “Where there is much freedom there is much error.”

— Friedrich Schiller

266. “Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”

— Friedrich Schiller

267. “Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.”

— Friedrich Schiller

268. “All things must; man is the only creature that wills.”

— Friedrich Schiller

269. “Stubbornness is not firmness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

270. “Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.”

— Friedrich Schiller

271. “The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.”

— Friedrich Schiller

272. “Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.”

— Friedrich Schiller

273. “Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.”

— Friedrich Schiller

274. “Secrecy is for the happy, – misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.”

— Friedrich Schiller

275. “I follow my heart, for I can trust it.”

— Friedrich Schiller

276. “Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!”

— Friedrich Schiller

277. “Toil of science swells the wealth of art.”

— Friedrich Schiller

278. “To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

279. “As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.”

— Friedrich Schiller

280. “Speech is always bolder than action.”

— Friedrich Schiller

281. “We must bear what Heaven sends.”

— Friedrich Schiller

282. “Song forbids victorious deeds to die.”

— Friedrich Schiller

283. “Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.”

— Friedrich Schiller

284. “Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.”

— Friedrich Schiller

285. “Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.”

— Friedrich Schiller

286. “Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”

— Friedrich Schiller

287. “What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.”

— Friedrich Schiller

288. “If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.”

— Friedrich Schiller

289. “You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.”

— Friedrich Schiller

290. “O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

— Friedrich Schiller

291. “Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin’s dagger.”

— Friedrich Schiller

292. “There is a nobility in the world of manners.”

— Friedrich Schiller

293. “There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.”

— Friedrich Schiller

294. “The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.”

— Friedrich Schiller

295. “What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.”

— Friedrich Schiller

296. “Not he who scorns the Saviour’s yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

297. “The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.”

— Friedrich Schiller

298. “An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.”

— Friedrich Schiller

299. “Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.”

— Friedrich Schiller

300. “Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.”

— Friedrich Schiller