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Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Type:
Dramatist Quotes
Category:
German Dramatist Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 10, 1759
Date of Death:
May 9, 1805
Nationality:
German
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Friedrich Schiller

I am better than my reputation.
Friedrich Schiller

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

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

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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 is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Friedrich Schiller

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

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

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
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

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

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller

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

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Friedrich Schiller

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