Friedrich Schiller Quotes

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

The dignity of man into your hands is given;Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Appearance rules the world.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

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.

What is life without the radiance of love?

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.