Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Eternity

Quotes about: Eternity

• Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Mind, Excited

• Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Eternity, Minutes

  "Resignation" by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 18, 1786.

• Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Believe, Dark, Destiny

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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