457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Man is an imitative creature.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.