457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.