Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

• Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Blood, Years

• It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Safety, Giving, Advice

• It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving Up, Men, Dignity

• One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Advice, Safe

• Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Giving, Common

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.196

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Eternity, Minutes

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

• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

• What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Giving

• Never the grave gives back what it has won!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Giving Back, Graves

  "Funeral Fantasy" by Friedrich Schiller,

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