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.”

“Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,—
'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,—
Know this! God rules the host of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth.”

“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

“One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.”

“What is not abandoned is never completely lost.”

“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.”

“He, that noble prize possessing—
He that boasts a friend that's true,
He whom woman's love is blessing,
Let him join the chorus too!”

“Even the Strongest Minds Cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.”

“Great souls endure in silence.”

“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”

“The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.”

“A moment lived in paradise
Is not atoned for too dearly by death.”

“Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,
When the wheel of time goes round”

“The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
Of the imagination dominates;
And his are all things that eschew the light.
The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
And the dark work, complete of preparation,
He draws by force into the realm of light.
Now must we hasten on to action, ere
The scheme, and most auspicious positure
Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.”

“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”

“Pain is short, and joy is eternal.”

“When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.”

“The strong man is strongest when alone.”

“We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?”

“Joy from truth's own glass of fire
Sweetly on the searcher smiles;
Lest on virtue's steeps he tire,
Joy the tedious path beguiles.
High on faith's bright hill before us,
See her banner proudly wave!
Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,—
Bursts the bondage of the grave!”

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

“His Armies, weakened by defeat and defeat, dispirited by misfortune, had unlearned - under beaten generals - that warlike impetuosity which as it is the consequence, so it is the guarentee of success.”

“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”

“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.”

“You say it as you understand it.”

“The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.”

“Don't let your heart depend on things
That ornament life in a fleeting way!
He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.”

“I have only an office here, and no opinion.”

“In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.”