“Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.”
Source: The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring
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Famous Friedrich Schiller Quotes
“Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.”
“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)
“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”