Friedrich Schiller: Trending quotes

Friedrich Schiller trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Friedrich Schiller: 222   quotes 124   likes

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

Friedrich Schiller

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 324

Justice

“Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —
And motionless forever stands the Past.”

Friedrich Schiller

Sentences of Confucius

Time , Past , Future

“Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.”

Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War

Confidence , Parent , Self-confidence

“The world is narrow, broad the mind—
Thoughts dwell easily side by side
Things collide violently in space”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

World

“Time is man's angel.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act V, sc. xi
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

Angels , Time

“If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge
Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but in vain.”

Friedrich Schiller

Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine That und dein Kunstwerk, // Mach es wenigen recht, vielen gefallen ist schlimm.
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "Choice"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)

Knowledge , Pleasure

“It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.”

Friedrich Schiller

The Thirty Years War

“Virtue is no empty echo.”

Friedrich Schiller Die Worte des Glaubens

Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 3 (1797)

“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)

“The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act IV, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

Peace , Evil

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Friedrich Schiller

Prefatory Remarks
The Philosophical Letters

Truth , Youth , Religion , Way

“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)

Time

“Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken!
Aid where tears of virtue flow;
Faith to keep each promise spoken!
Truth alike to friend and foe!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Stanza 8
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

Truth , Faith , Courage , Tear

“Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

“Law can only be applied to foreseeable cases.”

Friedrich Schiller

History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
The Thirty Years War

Law

“Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
Brethren, take the kiss of love!”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Chorus 1
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

Love , Kiss

“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 book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Truth , Art , Imagination , Fashion

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The power, the beauty, and the majesty
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,
Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,
Or chasms and watery depths, — all these have vanished;
They live no longer in the faith of reason.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act II, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

Faith , Religion , Beauty , Mountain

“Be embraced, ye millions!
This kiss is for the whole world!
Brothers, above the arch of stars
A loving Father surely dwells.”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

Stanza 5
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

Love , World , Star , Kiss

“What one refuses in a minute
No eternity will return.”

Friedrich Schiller

Resignation (1786)