Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Performance, Patience, Effort
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Fortune, Luck
To save all we must risk all.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Risk
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly’s uncurb’d steed,
Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Death
Appearance rules the world.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Appearance
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Discovery, Meaning
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
—Friedrich Schiller
Great souls endure in silence.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Soul
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Time
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who’s made the master of his destiny.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Destiny
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Imitation, Role models
Speech is always bolder than action.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Conversation, Speech
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Willpower, Will, Will Power
Love therefore
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Love
Modest humility is beauty’s crown.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Humility
Secrecy is for the happy; misery, hopeless misery needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Secrecy
It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Secrets
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Reason
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
—Friedrich Schiller
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: History, Historians
In what he leaves unsaid I discover a master of style.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Style
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Purpose
I follow my heart, for I can trust it.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Instincts
Votes should be weighed, not counted.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Voting, Elections
The blind, unwieldy monster, which, at first, rattles its bones, threatening to swallow high and low, the near and distant, with its gaping jaws, at last stumbles over a thread.
—Friedrich Schiller
He who considers too much will perform little.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Action
It is rascally to steal a purse, daring to steal a million, and a proof of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Blame
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Honesty
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Destiny
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
—Friedrich Schiller
Topics: Defects, Conformity
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
- Bertolt Brecht German Poet
- Berthold Auerbach German Novelist
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German Writer
- Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German Poet
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
- Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher, Scholar
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