Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 8

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• Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sports, Men, Feelings

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• Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Arms, Lists

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• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Imitation, Garlands, Imitator

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

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• The will of man is his happiness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Men, Willpower

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• In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

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  Men, Circles, Growth

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• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

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  Friendship, Forgiveness, World

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• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Literature, Converting, Opposition

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• Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
  Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Heart, Knowledge

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

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• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

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  Stupid, Ignorance, Vain

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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• The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Regret, Character, Creating

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

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• O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
  One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Ocean, Boat

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

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• If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, People, Looks

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• Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.5, 谷月社

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• He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Blessing, Love Is, Noble

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

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• Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

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  Abandon, Satisfied, Guardianship

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

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• Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

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  Coward, Done, Action

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• Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

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  Life, Sides, Sunny

  "Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.

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• I am better than my reputation

  Friedrich Schiller

  Reputation

  Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume Two”, p.285, Oberon Books

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• To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

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  Science, Cows, Goddess

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• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

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  Laughing, Firsts, Jest

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

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• We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

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  Cutting, Men, Circles

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

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  Happiness, Duty, Discharge

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• Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

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  Past, Arrows, Forever

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

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• The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

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  Kings, Pride, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.260

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

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  Birthday, Power, Idols

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

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