457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Speech is always bolder than action.

O God, how lovely still is life!