Friedrich Schiller

"Wenn es immer nach deinem Kopf ginge, du kröchest dein Leben lang im Staub." - "Immer noch besser, als ich kröch um den Thron herum."

Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the human being into a momentary dream of freedom, but actually to MAKE him free.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

Wer tränen ernten will, muss Liebe säen.

life is earnest, art is gay

Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

¡Quita! Abajo con este débil siglo de castrati que no sirve más que para rumiar las hazañas del pasado y para desollar a los héroes de la Antigüedad con ediciones comentadas y echarlos a perder con tragedias. La fuerza de su simiente se ha secado y ahora hay que ayudar a los hombres a multiplicarse con levadura de cerveza.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.

O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.

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

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

What do I care for Sweden? I detest her,
Worse than the pit of hell....

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