Friedrich Schiller – 30 Quotes

30 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

– Friedrich Schiller

The will of man is his happiness.

– Friedrich Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

– Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

– Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

– Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

– Friedrich Schiller

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

– Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

– Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

– Friedrich Schiller

Freedom can occur only through education.

– Friedrich Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

– Friedrich Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

– Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

– Friedrich Schiller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

– Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

– Friedrich Schiller

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

– Friedrich Schiller

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

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

– Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

– Friedrich Schiller