457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Freedom exists only with power.

Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from my brow --No night but hath its morn.