Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

• Far must thy researches go
  Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
  Thou must tempt the dark abyss
  Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
  Naught but firmness gains the prize,
  Naught but fullness makes us wise,
  Buried deep truth e'er lies.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Schiller, “The Proverbs Of Confucius”

• The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Ideas, Imagination

• 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.

• Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Stars, Prayer

• A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Deep Meaning, Customs

  "Maria Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene 7, line 131), June 14, 1800.

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