457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

Great souls suffer in silence.

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.