457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Intellect – brain force.

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

The world’s history is the world’s judgment.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

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

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.

To be man’s tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Don’t let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.