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Friedrich Schiller [1759-1805] German

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Poet

Deism, Freemasons, Gothic, National, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life, Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Art, Beauty, Freedom, Inspirational, Wisdom, Alone, Best, Chance, Change, Dreams, Good, Happiness, Intelligence, Love, Nature, Peace, Power, Society, Teen, Time, Wedding

Quote	Tags	Rank
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.	Change, Happiness	101
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.		102
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.	Peace	103
Appearance rules the world.		104
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.	Good	105
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.	Dreams, Teen	106
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.	Beauty, Freedom, Inspirational	107
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.	Love	108
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.	Power	109
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.		110
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.		111
The strong man is strongest when alone.	Alone	112
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.	Art, Nature	113
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.	Inspirational	114
Art is the daughter of freedom.	Art, Freedom	115
Great souls suffer in silence.		116
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.	Chance	117
Every true genius is bound to be naive.	Intelligence	118
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.		119
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.		120
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.	Society	121
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.		122
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.		123
Votes should be weighed not counted.		124
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.		125
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.		126
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.		201
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.		202
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.	Wedding	203
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.	Wisdom	204
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.		205
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.		206
The key to education is the experience of beauty.	Beauty	207
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.		208
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.		209
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.		210
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.	Wisdom	211
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.	Time	212
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.		213
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.		214
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.		215
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.		216
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.		217
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.		218
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.		219
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.		220
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.		221
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.		222
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.		223
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.		224
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.		225
He who considers too much will perform little.		226
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.		301
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.		302
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.		303
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.		304
To save all we must risk all.		305
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.		306
The will of man is his happiness.		307
Will it, and set to work briskly.		308
I am better than my reputation.		309
Freedom can occur only through education.		310
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.		311
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.	Best	312
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.		313
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.		314
The universe is one of God's thoughts.		315
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.		316

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