Friedrich Schiller quotes

“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

“With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“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.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Freedom can occur only through education.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Will it, and set to work briskly.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“To save all we must risk all.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Friedrich Schiller

“The will of man is his happiness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Live with your century; but do not be its creature.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Votes should be weighed not counted.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“He who considers too much will perform little.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“I am better than my reputation.”

— Friedrich Schiller