O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. Friedrich Schiller More Quotes by Friedrich Schiller More Quotes From Friedrich Schiller Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. Friedrich Schiller conquerrealityart It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Friedrich Schiller safetyadvicegiving The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man. Friedrich Schiller pridekingsmen I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo. Friedrich Schiller apolloartistsoul Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. Friedrich Schiller nurseordinarymen Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. Friedrich Schiller fatedestinyhands Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom. Friedrich Schiller errorsgoalrunning Life is earnest, art is gay. Friedrich Schiller gaylife-isart Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Friedrich Schiller imitatorgarlandsimitation The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then. Friedrich Schiller ignorancereadingthinking He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! Friedrich Schiller nobleblessinglove-is Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation. Friedrich Schiller destinydarkbelieve The history of the world is the world's court of justice. Friedrich Schiller literaturejusticeworld The lemonade is weak, like your soul. Friedrich Schiller like-yousoulweak Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! Friedrich Schiller fightingearthheaven Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - Friedrich Schiller have-faithearthheaven In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. Friedrich Schiller goalforgetmen Truth is more than a dream and a song. Friedrich Schiller truthdreamsong It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part. Friedrich Schiller stampsstationsmere When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day. Friedrich Schiller eyespringjoy
