Friedrich Schiller idézet

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„Minden elmúlik, mint az álom
Elröpül, mint a vándormadár,
Csak az emlék marad meg a szívben,
Halványan, mint a holdsugár.”

„Az ember ne akadjon fenn apróságokon, ha nagy dolgok miatt vágott neki az útnak.”

„Üdvöz légy rétjeinken,
Kiért a föld eped,
Virágkosaras ifjú,
Tavasz, köszöntelek!”

„Aki semmitől sem fél, van olyan hatalmas, mint akitől mindenki retteg.”

„Csak az tudja, hogy mi a szerelem, aki remény nélkül szeret.”

„A szív csöndes szentélyébe fuss hát
A világból, mely forrong vadul.”

„Kis zugot, barátom, hol találhat
A szabadság s béke otthonul?
Vad viharral alkonyult a század,
S öldökölve ébred im az új.
(…)

Mérhetetlen a világ, ha nézed,
Hajók útja nem foghatja át,
Mégis, hátán végtelen terének,
Tíz boldog szív nem talál hazát.

Térj a lélek szent körébe inkább,
S hagyd az élet küszködéseit!
Álmainkban él csak a szabadság,
S a szépség csak a dalban virít.”

„A szív számára nincs császár-parancs.”

„Szegény, koldus szegény leszel, mikortól nem tudsz már szeretni mást, csak önmagad.”

„Aki sosem kockáztat, annak nincs mit remélnie.”

„Mit nem fogadtál el a pillanattól,
Az öröklét sem adja vissza már.”

„A természet csak homlokába tett
Látó szemet, hátát, a védtelent,
Csupán a jámbor hűség védi meg.”

„A percet lásd meg, míg el nem repül, mert életünkben ritka pillanat kínál nagyot, jelentőst.”

„A szeretet rettenetesebb kényszer, mint a zsarnok dühe!”

„Barátaim buzgalma tesz tönkre, nem ellenségeim gyűlölete.”

„Mélybe lépj: csak ott lehet
Meglátni a lényeget.
Eredményt csak kitartás hoz,
Bőség kell világossághoz,
Igazsághoz - szakadék.”

„Az elhúnyt, íme, új testet ölthet,
Ebben hiszek s biztos vagyok,
Sejtetik vélem már a bölcsek,
S meggyőznek róla a gazok.”

“Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.”

“O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
The golden time of first love!
The eye sees the open heaven,
The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
O that the beautiful time of young love
Could remain green forever.”

“Bow before him, all creation!
Mortals, own the God of love!
Seek him high the stars above,—
Yonder is his habitation!”

“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.”

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

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The lemonade is weak, like your soul.”

“I feel an army in my fist.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“War nourishes war.”

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

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

“Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.”

“What are hopes, what are plans?”

“The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”

“Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.”

“To the Gods we ne'er can render
Praise for every good they grant;
Let us, with devotion tender,
Minister to grief and want.
Quenched be hate and wrath forever,
Pardoned be our mortal foe—
May our tears upbraid him never,
No repentance bring him low!”

“You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.”