Best Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller Quotes

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

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

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

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

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

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.