Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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

  Friedrich 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

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

  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

• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

  Friedrich Schiller

• Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

  Friedrich 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

  Friedrich Schiller

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

  Friedrich Schiller

• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

  Friedrich 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

• Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

  Friedrich 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

• Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

  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

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

  Friedrich Schiller

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

  Friedrich 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.

  Friedrich Schiller

• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  Friedrich Schiller

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

  Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller (82)

Birth:	10th November, 1759
Death:	9th May, 1805
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Professor, Writer

About

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was born in Marbach am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany. He was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. In 1780, he obtained a post as regimental doctor in Stuttgart. In 1789, he was appointed professor of History and Philosophy in Jena.   He wrote several books include: Ode to Joy, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Die Bürgschaft, The Ghost-Seer(novel), The poems of Schille, The History of the Thirty Years' Warr, and Song of the Bell. He wrote several plays include: The Robbers, Fiesco, Intrigue and Love, Wallenstein, Mary Stuart, The Maid of Orleans, The Bride of Messina, William Tell, and Demetrius.

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