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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.”
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.”
“Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!”
“A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.”
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
“Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”
Source: Schiller: Aesthetic education
“Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.”