Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Appearance rules the world.

To save all we must risk all.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

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

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.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

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.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

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

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

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

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

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

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

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.