Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

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

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

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

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

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

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

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

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

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

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

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

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

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

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.