Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. 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 conquer reality art It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Friedrich Schiller safety advice giving 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 pride kings men 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 apollo artist soul Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. Friedrich Schiller nurse ordinary men Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. Friedrich Schiller fate destiny hands 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 errors goal running Life is earnest, art is gay. Friedrich Schiller gay life-is art Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Friedrich Schiller imitator garlands imitation 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 ignorance reading thinking 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 noble blessing love-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 destiny dark believe The history of the world is the world's court of justice. Friedrich Schiller literature justice world The lemonade is weak, like your soul. Friedrich Schiller like-you soul weak Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! Friedrich Schiller fighting earth heaven Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - Friedrich Schiller have-faith earth heaven In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. Friedrich Schiller goal forget men Truth is more than a dream and a song. Friedrich Schiller truth dream song 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 stamps stations mere 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 eye spring joy
