Quotes from Friedrich Schiller

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.

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

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.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

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

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

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.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

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

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.

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.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.