Friedrich Schiller Men Quotations

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

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

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

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Man is an imitative creature.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

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

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

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

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

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.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.

The will of man is his happiness.

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

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.