“Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.”
Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German
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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.”
Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Weep, for the light is dead.”
Source: Sammlung
Source: Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller
“As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.”
Source: Don Carlos ... Translated Into English Heroic Metre ... by I. Towler
“Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.”
Source: Sammlung
“The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.”
Source: The works of Frederick Schiller
“Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.”
Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life
“Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.”
“Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?”
“Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.”
“As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.”
Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina
“An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.”
“I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.”
“Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!”
“Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.”
Source: The Piccolomini; or, The first part of Wallenstein. Tr. from Schiller. The death of Wallenstein
“To the fool-king belongs the world.”
Source: Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.”
Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life
“Love can sun the realms of night.”
Source: Sammlung
“There is no solitude in nature.”
Source: Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
“Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.”
Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life
“To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!”
“A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.”