457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

His saying was: live and let live.

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.