An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter. Friedrich Schiller More Quotes by Friedrich Schiller More Quotes From Friedrich Schiller Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers? Friedrich Schiller native land father In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. Friedrich Schiller machines literature people We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. Friedrich Schiller perfection complaining looks Virtue is no empty echo. Friedrich Schiller empty echoes virtue The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself. Friedrich Schiller loses jokes laughing O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. Friedrich Schiller trifles envy jealousy Ah, to that far distant strand Friedrich Schiller bridges life hands He that is overcautious will accomplish little. Friedrich Schiller investing wise doubt O that it might remain eternally green, Friedrich Schiller green beautiful life If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike. Friedrich Schiller wall eye art I have enjoyed earthly happiness, Friedrich Schiller enjoyed life Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Friedrich Schiller learning teaching courage I am my own heaven and hell! Friedrich Schiller self-respect self-esteem heaven In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes. Friedrich Schiller creative mind ideas Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge. Friedrich Schiller wheels humanity men A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. Friedrich Schiller noble reason heart Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Friedrich Schiller pleasure tools life Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. Friedrich Schiller arms lists life O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- Friedrich Schiller boat ocean life Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture. Friedrich Schiller flames nature men
