457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.