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Friedrich Schiller Quotes (1759-1805)
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About Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 β 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
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βI am better than my reputation.β
βYou say it as you understand it.β
βTime is man's angel.β
βI feel an army in my fist.β
βLaw can only be applied to foreseeable cases.β
βWhen the wine goes in, strange things come out.β
βDie Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.β
βO the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.β
βMan is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.β
βWhatever is not forbidden is permitted.β
βThe strong man is strongest when alone.β
βO who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?β
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Friedrich Schiller on Love 11 quotes
βWhat is life without the radiance of love?β
Friedrich Schiller on Time 6 quotes
βSpΓ€t kommt ihrβdoch ihr kommt!
You come late, yet you come!β
Friedrich Schiller on Joy 5 quotes
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βWouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.β
Friedrich Schiller on Death 3 quotes
βDay's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.β
Friedrich Schiller on Song 2 quotes
βThe lively Shadow-World of Song.β
Friedrich Schiller on Knowledge 2 quotes
βWouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.β
Friedrich Schiller on Childhood 2 quotes
βWage du zu irren und zu trΓ€umen. Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.β
Friedrich Schiller on Bells 2 quotes
βAround, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.β
Friedrich Schiller on Error 2 quotes
βRarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.β
Friedrich Schiller on Modernity 2 quotes
βThe polypoid character of the Greek states, in which every individual enjoyed an independent existence but could, when need arose, grow into the whole organism, now made way for an ingenious clock-work, in which out of the piecing together of innumerable but lifeless parts, a mechanical kind of collective life ensued. State and church, laws and customs were now torn asunder; enjoyment was divorced from labor, the means from the end, the effort from the reward. Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.β
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Friedrich Schiller on Bernard Baruch
βAnyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensibleβas a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.β
Friedrich Schiller on Kalidasa
βIn the whole world of Greek antiquity there is no poetical representation of beautiful love which approaches even afar.β
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Friedrich Schiller
βSchiller's blank verse is bad. He moves it as a fly in a glue bottle. His thoughts have their connection and variety, it is true, but there is no sufficiently corresponding movement in the verse. How different from Shakespeare's endless rhythms! β¦ There is a nimiety β a too-muchness β in all Germans. It is the national fault. Lessing had the best notion of blank verse. The trochaic termination of German words renders blank verse in that language almost impracticable.β
Cynthia Ozick on Friedrich Schiller
βIn the middle of the war there was Heine, there was Goethe, there was Schiller. I did posters for the German club, in the middle of the war. When I think back to how happy I was, studying German and flunking algebra, and I think what was going on for other Jewish teenagers on the other side of the world, I'm so puzzled by those dates.β
About Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 β 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.