Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Every true genius is bound to be naive.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Intelligence, Genius, Literature

  "Schiller's Poems‎". Book by Friedrich Schiller, p. 200, 1905.

• Art is the daughter of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Mother, Art

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume I”, p.262, Executive Intelligence Review

• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Natural, Goodness

• Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Fear

• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Beauty, Grace

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

• Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Peace, Literature

• It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Long, Advice

• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Children, Artist

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Dust, Names

• Will it, and set to work briskly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Work, Literature, Willpower

• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wisdom, Fate, Literature

• Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Honesty, Literature

• Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Lying, Play

  "Theklo", Stanza 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 109-113, 1922.

• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Majority, Doe, Literature

• Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Century, Creatures

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Converting, Opposition

• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Revenge, Despair, Delight

• 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Mistake, Struggle, Errors

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Men, Play, Literature

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3621, Delphi Classics

• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Vaccines, Literature, World

• Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fundamentals, Development, Literature

• In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

  Friedrich Schiller

  People, Machines, Literature

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Birthday, Power, Idols

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

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