457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Even weak men when united are powerful.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The universe is a thought of God.

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.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.