Friedrich Schiller Quotations | Page 2

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

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?

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

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.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.