457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.

The child of nature, when he breaks loose, becomes a madman; but the art scholar, when he breaks loose, becomes a debased character.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

De behoefte om welgevallig te zijn onderwerpt de machtige aan het fijnzinnige oordeel van de smaak; de lust kan hij stelen, maar de liefde moet een geschenk zijn.

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.

Su interés en la obra es simplemente moral o simplemente físico, y no es precisamente lo que debe ser: estético. Lectores tales gozan de una poesía sería y patética como de un sermón, y de una poesía humorística e ingenua, como de una bebida embriagadora, y carecen lo bastante de gusto para exigir edificación en una tragedia o epopeya.