Friedrich Schiller Hands Quotations

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

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

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

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.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.