Quotes by Friedrich von Schiller

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All art is devoted to joy, and there is no more important and serious problem than how to make people happy.

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Works of art are like metals. Noble ones gain luster with time, ordinary ones rust.

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A bee can teach you diligence, a worm can become the master of your craft, science you can share with higher spirits, but ART, man, is yours!

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Love lifts up great souls.

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Love and hunger rule the world.

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Love is the only thing in nature for which the power of imagination is limitless and meets no obstacle in the way.

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The May of life blooms only once.

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Lack of courage earns us only contempt.

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Just as for some science is a heavenly goddess, for others it seems like a fat cow that gives them butter.

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Majority of votes is not a measure of justice.

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Courage grows with danger: the closer it approaches, the greater the forces.

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True friendship is full of courage.

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Our conscience is disgusted by an immoral but potentially useful drug.

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Love wants to be a free sacrifice.

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Better a terrible end than endless horror.

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Only the misfortune of a great soul knows nobility.

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How hateful is the wisdom that calls you to bloodshed!

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When we passionately love someone who despises us, we painfully feel the chains of nature.

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When a joker laughs at his joke, it loses its value.

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If you have something to do, finish it faster.

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Beauty is also a virtue, a beautiful woman cannot have flaws.

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A severe ruler does not rule for long.

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He who does not risk his life will never win it.

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He who repents without blushing, always repents.

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He who has a pure soul recognizes the victory of reason over self.

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When, admiring a painting, we forget the painter, it means that we are paying him the most refined praise that can exist.

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Parents forgive their children least of all those vices which they themselves have instilled in them.

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Many times, people are ashamed precisely because of the fear of false shame.

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Nothing makes life more bearable than purposeful activity.

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It is not difficult for a convinced person to convince others.

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Man grows in proportion to the growth of his goals.

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Man not only can, but must combine pleasure with duty: he must gladly obey his reason.

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Man is reflected in his actions.

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The deeper the error, the more we celebrate the truth.

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The more haphazard our morality is, the more necessary is our care for the law.

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Honor beautifies any title.

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Honor is more expensive than life.

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To save everything, you have to be able to do anything. A serious illness needs a strong medicine.

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The value of existence is measured not in years, but in the fullness of life!

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The man with an honest heart has an honest face.

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Only he who can hate evil with all his soul, can passionately love good.

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The theater punishes thousands of vices left unpunished by the tribunal and encourages thousands of virtues, about which the law is silent. Theater takes deceit and falsehood out of their twisted labyrinths and shows them their terrible appearance in the light of day. The theater unfolds before us the panorama of human suffering. The theater brings us into the sphere of a foreign misfortune, and for a moment the suffering rewards us with sweet tears and increased courage and experience.

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Poetic creation must justify itself, because where action speaks, words are of little use.

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An enlightened reason ennobles the moral feelings; the head must educate the heart.

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Does the sun shine for me today, so that I can think of yesterday?

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Dear are all those that, by the force of the spirit, resemble each other.

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Only he who dominates himself is free.

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No one has yet been born free of suffering.

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Forgiveness is stronger than all victories.

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Empty words do not soothe the heart.

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Words are always bolder than deeds.

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A single source of inspiration is not enough for a poet - the inspiration that comes from higher reason is needed.

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Truth does not suffer in any way from the fact that one does not recognize it.

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True morality is learned only in the school of misfortune; permanent happiness can easily become an abyss fatal to virtue.

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The history of the world is the tribunal of the world.

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Truth is a mirror; his reflection is unbearable for pretense and hypocrisy.

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Art acts morally not only because it provides pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure provided by art is itself a path to morality.

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Precisely because true art aims at something real and objective, it cannot be satisfied by mere apparent truth.

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All immorality arises from a conflict between good and pleasant, between passions and reason - and has as its source the strength of sensory impulses and the weakness of the moral will.

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All that our soul feels in the form of vague, ambiguous sensations, the theater offers us in strong words and bright images, the force of which amazes us.

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The will is a distinctive feature of the human race, and reason is the norm by which the will is controlled.

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Faithful love helps you endure all hardships.

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Great souls endure in silence.

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One bad deed carries within itself the roots of new bad deeds.

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In the images of his gods, man draws his own portrait.

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There is often deep meaning in children's play.

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Gratitude suffers from amnesia.

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He is a fool who leaves the job half-done, and then, with his mouth agape, waits to see what will happen next.

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Woe to me if my beliefs changed according to my heartbeats.

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If I hate, I rob myself of something; if I love, I become rich with what I love.

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If you want to know yourself, look at what others are doing; and if you want to understand others, then look into your own heart.

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Principles can hardly keep the chastity of the soul pure, but love can keep the nobility of the heart. Often, while principles continue the struggle, love has already won a victory on their behalf.

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Friendship is not some kind of pitiful lighter to be extinguished by parting.

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Worthy thoughts strengthen a man's heart and do not fear the light of day.

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Dignity expresses the spirit's resistance to instinct.

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For good actors there are no bad roles.

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A dilettante takes the dark for deep, the wild for strong, the indeterminate for infinite, the meaningless for supersensible.

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Misanthropy is slow suicide; self-love is the greatest poverty of the living being.

"If you want to study yourself - look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people - look into your own heart."

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See the minute before it flies by, because a rare moment in our lives offers something big and significant.

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You will be poor, beggarly poor, from when you can no longer love anyone but yourself.

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Ready for the big day of your life, Check if it's a heart-to-heart match? Lust is short, boo is long.

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Connecting the fullness of artistic pleasure with the joy of the heart has always been my main ideal in life, and the union of these two is also my surest tool, with which I can bring both to perfection.

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Fate lifts a man when it crumbles him.

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We can never know whether the calmness of the mind arose from moral strength, if we were not convinced that it did not arise from insensitivity. It is not a great skill to master such feelings that only lightly and fleetingly brush the surface of the soul; but to maintain the freedom of our mind in the storm that whips up the whole sensual nature, this requires a resilience that is infinitely superior to all natural powers.

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I have run out of human means, I must resort to diabolical ones.

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Incoherent words and chance encounters become decisive evidence in the imaginary person, if he is sensitive enough.

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The greatest praise for an artist is when we immerse ourselves in his work and forget about the creator.

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The one who fears nothing is as powerful as the one everyone fears.

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A person should not get caught up in small things if he set out on the road for big things.

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He who never risks has nothing to hope for.

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There is no imperial order for the heart.

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Everything passes like a dream, flies away like a migratory bird, only the memory remains in the heart, dim as the moonbeam.

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Only a hopeless lover knows what love is.

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What you didn't accept from the moment, Eternal life won't give you back.

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Love is a more terrible compulsion than the tyrant's rage!

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Nature only put the Seer's eye in his forehead, his back, the defenseless, Only pious loyalty protects him.

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So run to the quiet sanctuary of the heart From the world that boils wildly.

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It is the zeal of my friends that destroys me, not the hatred of my enemies.

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Burn out, flame of heavenly spark, holy joy, you dear, beautiful one! Into your magic circle, daughter of heaven, our intoxicated heart longingly enters. We will reweave your sacred bond, which our custom has torn apart, all people will be one brother, where you rest with your wings.

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It often happens that virtue outlives honor!

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The women look out for each other's feminine weaknesses with lynx eyes!

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The flame of love cooks the murderous poison of love.

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They dream of a more beautiful, better country, This dream belongs to all people: The camp on earth rushes panting towards a shining goal! The earth turns into spring and winter - Man hopes to death.

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He who has done his best for his age will always have a blessed life.

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You only see a fiery and brave horse fail on the track, The donkey trots thoughtfully towards its goal.

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A man is only fully human when he plays.

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The more tension, bondage and subjugation the momentary interest of our time creates in the souls, the more urgent the need becomes to free the bound soul and reunite the politically divided world under the banner of truth and beauty by a general interest that is purely human, everything of the age it is attached to a reality free from its influence.

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People of brothers, we will be one nation, trouble and danger will never separate us. We will always be free like our fathers, Death is better than living in slavery!

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Riding is not a joy if the horse never even pulls its bridle.

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Every desire bursts forth from its hiding place, the blood boils and breaks out on its shores, body longs to fall into body, and heart burns with heart.

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The sovereign's majesty smiles from the sad mirror of envy, curses and fear - the glorified happy feast on terrible feasts of tears, curses and desperate woes, they become intoxicated by these and stagger into eternity, before the throne of God.