Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 12

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• Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• Stern is the visage of necessity.

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  "Wallenstein's Tod". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 4. 45, 1799.

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• The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

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  Justice, Literature, World

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

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• Ah, to that far distant strand
  Bridge there was not to convey,
  Not a bark was near at hand,
  Yet true love soon found the way.

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  Life, Hands, Bridges

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146

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• It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

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  Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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• He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

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  Winning, Venture, Prize

  Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

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  Courage, Men, Brave

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.577

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• Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

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  Running, Errors, Goal

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• The first great law is to obey.

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  Law, Firsts, Obedience

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.48

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• 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.

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  Dream, Stars, Prayer

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

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  Time, Children, Artist

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

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• Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Thinking, Quiet

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• A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

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  Grace, Soul, Triumph

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3732, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Believe, Dark, Destiny

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

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  Sympathy, Art, Soul

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• One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

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  Giving, Advice, Safe

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• His saying was: live and let live.

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  Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

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• Life is earnest, art is gay.

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  Art, Gay, Life Is

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

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• Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

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  Play, Devil

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 192-93, Wallenstein's Tod, 1. 3. 64, 1922.

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• Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
  Daughter of Elysium!
  Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
  Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
  Thy sweet magic brings together
  What stern Custom spreads afar;
  All men become brothers
  Where thy happy wing-beats are.

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  Daughter, Sweet, Brother

  "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller, (Stanza 1), 1785.

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• As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

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  Fear

  Friedrich Schiller, John TOWLER (of Carlsruhe.) (1843). “Don Carlos ... Translated Into English Heroic Metre ... by I. Towler”, p.39

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• The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

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  Reading, Ignorance, Thinking

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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• Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

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  Men, Nurse, Ordinary

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. iv, 1798.

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• Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

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  Freedom, Men, Born

  "Die Worte des Glaubens", Stanza 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

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  Light, Joyful, Plant

  Friedrich Schiller (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller”, p.469

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