457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

He who considers too much will perform little.

The will of man is his happiness.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.