Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Great souls endure in silence.

Great souls suffer in silence.

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

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

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

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

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

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

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

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

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

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.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

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

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

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

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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.