Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?”

— Friedrich Schiller

252. “Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”

— Friedrich Schiller

253. “Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

256. “Intellect – brain force.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

258. “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

259. “Deaf rage that hears no leader.”

— Friedrich Schiller

260. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

263. “Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.”

— Friedrich Schiller

264. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

268. “Stubbornness is not firmness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

269. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

277. “Speech is always bolder than action.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

279. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

284. “We must bear what Heaven sends.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

287. “Song forbids victorious deeds to die.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

290. “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

291. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

293. “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

294. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

299. “Mazarin shed tears over this great loss, which Conde, who had no feeling for anything but glory, disregarded. “A single night in Paris,” said he, “gives birth to more men than this action has destroyed.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller