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“Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.”

Friedrich Schiller Mary Stuart

Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
Maria Stuart, Act III, sc. vi (1800)

“What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.”

Friedrich Schiller

Hope, last stanza (1797)

“War nourishes war.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act I, sc. ii

(de) Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

“I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, — through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.”

Friedrich Schiller

Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters

“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 book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

“There's no such thing as chance;
And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“I feel an army in my fist.”

Friedrich Schiller The Robbers

Die Räuber (The Robbers), Act II (1781)

“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”

Friedrich Schiller Intrigue and Love

Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)

“The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act III, sc. i
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“All men without distinction, are allured by immediate advantages. Great minds alone are excited by distant good. So long as wisdom in it's projects, calculates upon wisdom, or relies upon it's own strength, it forms none by chimerical schemes - and runs the risk of making itself the laughter of the world. But it is certain of success, and can reckon upon aid and admiration, when it finds a place in it's plans for barbarism, rapacity and superstition and can render the selifsh passions of mankind the executor of its' purposes.”

Friedrich Schiller

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

“In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.”

Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.
Letter 9
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy

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

“Life is only error,
And death is knowledge.”

Friedrich Schiller

Cassandra (1802)

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

Friedrich Schiller

Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius
The Philosophical Letters

“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

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

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

“Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.”

Friedrich Schiller Don Carlos

Act II, sc. viii
Don Carlos (1787)

“This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told
While yonder mountains stand upon their base.
By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.”

Friedrich Schiller William Tell

Act III, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)