Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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Friedrich Schiller

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : November 10, 1759

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich Schiller

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

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Freedom can occur only through education.

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To save all we must risk all.

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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

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

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

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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

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I am better than my reputation.

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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

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

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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

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