Quotations of selected author

Friedrich von Schiller


1. "World history is the world's court."

source: "Resignation"

categories: History and Nations


2. "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Optimism and Hope


3. "When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

source: "Wallenstein"

categories: Health and Alcohol


4. "What is life without the radiance of love?"

source: "Wallenstein"

categories: Life and Death -:- Love


5. "Votes should be weighed not counted."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy


6. "Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Truth and Falsity


7. "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."

categories: Happiness -:- Love


8. "There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

categories: Destiny and Fate



9. "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

categories: Justice


10. "The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."

categories: Richness and Money


11. "The key to education is the experience of beauty."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Education


12. "The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man."

source: "Wallenstein"

categories: Various


13. "The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate."

source: "Wallenstein"

categories: Love -:- Destiny and Fate


14. "Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

categories: Human -:- Various


15. "Live with your century; but do not be its creature."

categories: Life and Death -:- Various


16. "Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."

source: "Cassandra"

categories: Life and Death -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


17. "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

categories: Happiness


18. "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness


19. "Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man



20. "Freedom can occur only through education."

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Education


21. "Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes


22. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Dreams and Desires