Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Su interés en la obra es simplemente moral o simplemente físico, y no es precisamente lo que debe ser: estético. Lectores tales gozan de una poesía sería y patética como de un sermón, y de una poesía humorística e ingenua, como de una bebida embriagadora, y carecen lo bastante de gusto para exigir edificación en una tragedia o epopeya.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,
When the wheel of time goes round

I am called
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominion never sets.

Любовта, в ръцете с прежда,
и от лабиринт извежда.

In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.

"Gegen die Dummheit kämpfen selbst die Götter vergebens ("Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain")"

Even the strongest minds cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.

Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays

He, that noble prize possessing—
He that boasts a friend that's true,
He whom woman's love is blessing,
Let him join the chorus too!

Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.

To what absurd conclusions must this notion of a sympathy of souls, derived from the propinquity of bodies, inevitably tend? A common source of being is to produce community of sentiment; identity of matter, identity of impulse.

What's old collapses, times change,
And new life blossoms in the ruins.

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

Ein einziger Tropfen Hass, der im Becher des Glücks bleibt, verwandelt das glücklichste Getränk in Gift.

Wer tränen ernten will, muss Liebe säen.