Friedrich Schiller

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

It is not flesh and blood but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Great souls suffer in silence.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

The will of man is his happiness.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands the larger their aims.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

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

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

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

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

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

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

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

To save all we must risk all.

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

The world delights to tarnish shining names, And to trample the sublime in the dust.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

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.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

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

Freedom can occur only through education.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

I am better than my reputation.

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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing; God only helps when men can help no more.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

I feel an army in my fist.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Never the grave gives back what it has won

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Appearance rules the world.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.