FastSaying

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


Friedrich von Schiller

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER They won’t turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. NALIAKA my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit...
ERIC RIPERT Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen B...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Some years later, after Scott’s death, we came my father and I to the Field Museum, a long dismal ...
WALKER PERCY But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duti...
DOUGLAS WILSON Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking alo...
ANNE MICHAELS We have a dilemma, then,” Finnikin said fiercely. “Because I prayed that you would grow old and ...
MELINA MARCHETTA Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who...
LYNN AUSTIN Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face ...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize...
MARK MAISH I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...
ARTHUR MILLER He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who ...
HILARY MANTEL I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
HERBERT SIMON A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many s...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.
KATHERINE ARDEN And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn...
ROBERT OLEN BUTLER When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awa...
PETER GEYE And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderland...
PETER GEYE Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfu...
BERNARD TAYLOR In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
CROESUS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of thre...
RASHOD OLLISON The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Help your father
As he ages
And loses his strength
For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...
RUDYARD KIPLING In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.
HERODOTUS Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---who...
ANNA GODBERSEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
TED DEKKER No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in wa...
CROESUS OF LYDIA And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; ...
WILLIAM TYNDALE The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part aw...
DAVID BENNUN The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the tru...
TONNY K. BROWN The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliatio...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons b...
HERODOTUS If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that ...
KARL ROVE At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our rede...
E. STANLEY JONES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. What heart does not push the blood of words and which thought does understand it?
SORIN CERIN Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and ...
JOHN BYROM Bone and Skin, two millers thin, / Would starve us all, or near it; / But be it known to Skin and Bo...
JOHN BYROM Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.
CHINESE PROVERB Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The war affects us here in Newfane. It affects us when our mothers and fathers and sons and daughter...
DAN DEWALT If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If y...
RUDYARD KIPLING Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way t...
BRAYLON EDWARDS Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers
HERBERT KAUFMAN From a heart of stone, to a heart of flesh, love makes new what sin makes old
JOHN M SHEEHAN For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
MARTIN LUTHER I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and ...
RYAN ZINKE Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
ALEXANDER POPE He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
BIBLE Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
JANE D. HULL I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when i...
JANE GREY You cannot play with the blood of sons. This is not only an extremely sensitive but also potentially...
AZMI BISHARA The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is goi...
ADAM SMITH The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be f...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working...
ROSA LUXEMBURG The ground was all flesh and blood.
ABBAS TALIB For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
BIBLE It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but wha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero a...
MARKUS ZUSAK Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KAASNIEWSKI Because so many functions are for fathers and sons, this is for fathers to bring them closer to thei...
EUNICE TUCKER Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN It is the heart which makes people eloquent
LATIN PROVERB He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.
HOPE JAHREN I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons a...
SHIRLEY JACKSON A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood
AMY LEVY A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
AMY LEVY With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on...
BRAD PITT One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.
DADA BHAGWAN Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood ...
TED DEKKER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we li...
T.S. ELIOT Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI Rebirth is neither born of blood nor flesh or human origin. But born of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I pe...
JULIE KAGAWA When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL

More Friedrich von Schiller

Love therefore
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Speech is always bolder than action.
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 inadmiss...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the gr...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is criminal to steal a purse,
daring to steal a fortune,
a mark of greatness to steal a cro...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forw...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Stern is the on-look of necessity,
Not without shudder may a human hand
Grasp the mysterious u...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest sourc...
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...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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 whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To save all we must risk all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear alle...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The strong man is strongest when alone.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Even the weak become strong when they are united.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Votes should be weighed not counted.
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...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easi...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanic...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pou...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He that is overcautious will accomplish little
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Great souls suffer in silence
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER One can give advice comfortably from a safe port
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Every true genius is bound to be naive.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth lives on in the midst of deception
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who considers too much will perform little
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 whe...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Votes should be weighed, not counted
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Love is the reward of love
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. ...
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do diffic...
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. Th...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest sourc...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Appearance rules the world.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Great souls suffer in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Will it, and set to work briskly.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I feel an army in my fist.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear alle...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The strong man is strongest when alone.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so merc...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the s...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The universe is one of God's thoughts.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop f...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER To save all we must risk all.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pou...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The will of man is his happiness.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Freedom can occur only through education.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the gr...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The key to education is the experience of beauty.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Every true genius is bound to be naive.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Art is the daughter of freedom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, ne...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER