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Quotes of Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (Usa)
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. (hatred)
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. (grace)
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. (god)
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. (jest)
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. (masses)
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. (honor)
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. (imitation)
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. (meaning of life)
Honesty prospers in every condition of life. (honesty)
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. (loyalty)
Mankind is made great or little by its own will. (humankind)
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. (power)
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. (persecution)
Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. (opposition)
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. (orthodoxy)
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. (power)
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. (peace)
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. (power)
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. (plays)
Truth lives on in the midst of deception. (truth)
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. (perfection)
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. (morality)
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. (power)
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. (patience)
Wise to resolve, patient to perform. (performance)
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von | [2] | [3]
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