Source: Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom
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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“Freedom can occur only through education.”
Source: Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
Source: Works
“Live with your century; but do not be its creature.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.”
“Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
Source: William Tell: An Historical Play
“Votes should be weighed not counted.”
Source: The Bride of Messina: Or, The Enemy Brothers, a Tragedy with Choruses. William Tell. Demetrius; Or, The Blood Wedding in Moscow, a Fragment
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”
“The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.”
“A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.”
“Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
Source: Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
Source: Schiller: Aesthetic education
Source: Schiller: Aesthetic education
“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
“The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.”
“Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)