Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 9

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• Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

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  Art, Reality, Conquer

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• The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

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  Life, Heart, Fate

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

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• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

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  Art, Men, Hands

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• Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Birth

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• The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

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  1801 DieJungfrau von Orle ans, act1, sc.5.

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• Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

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  Age, Gray

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

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  Death, Dying, Benefits

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

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  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

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  Fear, Moments

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• Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

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  Night, Clouds, Hopeful

  "Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

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• Truth is more than a dream and a song.

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  Dream, Song, Truth

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.147

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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  Life, Dust, Names

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• The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

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  Soul, Like You, Weak

  "Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love)". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act V, Scene VII), April 13, 1784.

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• O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

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  Slumber, Backgrounds, Knows

  "Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. i, 1787.

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• Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

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  Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

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  Death, Flames, Funeral

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• No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

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  Nature, Ocean, Swim

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• The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

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  Daughter, Art, Mean

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3324, 谷月社

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• It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

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  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

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  Clouds, Building, Poor

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• What shall he fear that does not fear death.

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  Death, Dying, Doe

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

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  God, Self, Demand

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

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  Heart, Angel, Dark

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• Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

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  Time, Blooming, Fields

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• The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

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  Power, Literature, World

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