Top 300 Friedrich Schiller Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.”

— Friedrich Schiller

252. “The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”

— Friedrich Schiller

253. “Deaf rage that hears no leader.”

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

— Friedrich Schiller

256. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

258. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

261. “Fate hath no voice but the heart’s impulse.”

— Friedrich Schiller

262. “The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

263. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

265. “Intellect – brain force.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

268. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

278. “Stubbornness is not firmness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

279. “Speech is always bolder than action.”

— Friedrich Schiller

280. “We must bear what Heaven sends.”

— Friedrich Schiller

281. “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

282. “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

283. “Song forbids victorious deeds to die.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

290. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

292. “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

293. “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

294. “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

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— 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. “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