Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

He who considers too much will perform little.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Appearance rules the world.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Votes should be weighed not counted.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Freedom exists only with power.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

I am better than my reputation.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

To save all we must risk all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Great souls endure in silence.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Speech is always bolder than action.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The will of man is his happiness.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller