If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. Friedrich Schiller More Quotes by Friedrich Schiller More Quotes From Friedrich Schiller Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. Friedrich Schiller lossgivingculture Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. Friedrich Schiller fairy-talechildhoodtaught Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Friedrich Schiller rhetoricpersuasivepower If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all. Friedrich Schiller joybeautifulbeauty Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air. Friedrich Schiller disappointmentfearinspirational It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. Friedrich Schiller wiseadvicelong He who considers too much will perform little. Friedrich Schiller too-muchactionlittles The will of man is his happiness. Friedrich Schiller willpowerhappinessmen A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence. Friedrich Schiller meritsoulbeautiful Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. Friedrich Schiller stakeshonordoe On the mountains there is freedom! Friedrich Schiller mountainperfectmen Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Friedrich Schiller grayvanityhair Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood. Friedrich Schiller starsprayerdream Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart. Friedrich Schiller angeldarkheart To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. Friedrich Schiller goddesscowsscience Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. Friedrich Schiller nursemenhands It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. Friedrich Schiller majorityliteraturedoe Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. Friedrich Schiller guardianshipabandonsatisfied Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Friedrich Schiller convertingoppositionliterature Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn. Friedrich Schiller hopefulcloudsnight
