Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

30 quotes

As a German playwright, Friedrich Schiller earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. Whether reflecting on Freedom or Wisdom, Friedrich Schiller brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 39 quotes from Friedrich Schiller, each offering a different angle on Freedom, Wisdom, Society, Power, and Inspirational. Consider this gem from Friedrich Schiller: "In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."

“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge

All Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

“Will it, and set to work briskly.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Work

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Change

“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Food

“They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Wisdom

“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Power

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Society

“That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Death

“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Great

“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Beauty

“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Beauty

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Wedding

“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Wisdom

“Art is the daughter of freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Art

“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Society

“The strong man is strongest when alone.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Alone

“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”

— Friedrich Schiller

History

“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Power

“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Hope

“The will of man is his happiness.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Happiness

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

— Friedrich Schiller

Art