Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 11

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• Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Sweet, Eye

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.15

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• A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wise, Simplicity, Mind

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• But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, Age, Sides

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

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  Soil, Strange, Thrive

  "Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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• Even weak men when united are powerful.

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  Powerful, Men, Weak Man

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

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  Fate, Destiny, Complaining

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Restless, Constant

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, May, Rogues

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• 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

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• Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

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  Father, Land, Native

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• To the fool-king belongs the world.

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  Kings, World, Fool

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• 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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• The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Chains, Cords

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• Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

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  Spy, Done, World

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• When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Eye, Joy

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• On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

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  Fall, Sunshine, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.81

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• A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

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  Healthy, Needs, Immortality

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• What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wind, Together, Ants

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• Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

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  Nature, Men, Flames

  Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.270, Executive Intelligence Review

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• You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

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  Race, Order, Individuality

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

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  Ideas, Creative, Mind

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• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

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  Death, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

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  Causes, Force, Righteous

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• There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

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  Men, Evil, Deeds

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• Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

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  Real, Ideas, Poetry

  Friedrich Schiller (1981). “On the naive and sentimental in literature”

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