Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 7

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• 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

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• Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Childhood, Taught, Fairy Tale

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Fancy, Anticipation

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• Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

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  Joy, Breastfeeding, Drink

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• Love can sun the realms of night.

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  Love, Night, Sun

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.278

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• Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Heaven, Earth

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• Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Morning, Land, Gates

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

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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Strong, Men, Solitude

  Friedrich Schiller (1839). “William Tell: An Historical Play”, p.27

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• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honor, Doe, Stakes

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• 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

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• Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Science, Toil

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.79

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• No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Causes, Harsh

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: History of the revolt of the Netherlands, continued. Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell”, p.510

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• As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Inspiration, Night

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• O that it might remain eternally green,
  The beautiful time of youthful love.

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  Life, Beautiful, Green

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• The dignity of man into your hands is given;
  Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1839). “Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller”, p.222

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• The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

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  Thinking, Brave Person, Lasts

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ebb And Flow, Tides, Judgment

  Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina”, p.246

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• Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

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  Vanity, Hair, Gray

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• It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

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  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.28, 谷月社

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• On the mountains there is freedom!
  The world is perfect everywhere,
  Save where man comes with his torment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Perfect, Mountain

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. vii, 1803.

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• No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Grief, Hands

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• Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

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  Taken, Liberty, Crowds

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

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  Inspirational, Future, Adventure

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• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

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  Art, Wall, Eye

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