457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.