Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Glaube mir, man kann das für Stärke des Geistes halten, was doch am Ende Verzweiflung ist [...].

Dem Mimen flicht die Nachwelt keine Kränze.

The world is narrow, broad the mind—
Thoughts dwell easily side by side
Things collide violently in space

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, — through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Votes should be weighed, not counted.
Sooner or later, the state will be wrecked
In which majority rules, and ignorance decides.

Therefore, one will see in the so-called refined ages, softness degenerate not seldom into effeminacy, plainness into insipidity, correctness into emptiness, liberality into arbitrariness, lightness into frivolity, calm into apathy, and the most contemptible caricature border upon the most glorious humanity.

in order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.

The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.

Drum prüfe, wer sich ewig bindet, ob sich das Herz zum Herzen findet! Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu ist lang.

lern' erst die Tiefe des Abgrunds kennen, eh du hineinspringst!

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Time is man's angel.

O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.

Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.

Der Dichter ist der einzige wahre Mensch, und der beste Philosoph ist nur eine Karikatur gegen ihn.