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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

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Humanity, Wheels
Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

Friedrich Schiller
Running, Dream, Hope

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, May
"Resignation". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 2, 1786.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Friedrich Schiller
Missing, Bows, Rigor

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Friedrich Schiller
Reality, Perfection, Scales

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

Friedrich Schiller
Christian, World, Dominion
"Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. vi, 1787.

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

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Willpower, Creatures

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Friedrich Schiller
Names, Profound, Joy
Friedrich Schiller (1837). “Schiller's Song of the Bell”, p.15

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

Friedrich Schiller
Song, Deeds, Dies
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.291

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

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Heaven, Purpose
Friedrich Schiller (1843). “The Maid of Orleans, and Other Poems”, p.121

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

Friedrich Schiller
Self, Concern, Knows

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

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Men, Share
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.286

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

Friedrich Schiller
Littles, Accomplish, Cautious

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

Friedrich Schiller
Eye, Garden, Temptation

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Friedrich Schiller
Artist, Soul, Apollo
Friedrich Schiller (1902). “Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller: In Eight Vol”

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Wise, Daughter
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Friedrich Schiller
Spring, Flower, Fading
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.382

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich Schiller
Love, Peace, Literature

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Friedrich Schiller
Satisfaction, Please
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 690-91, Votivtafeln, 1922.

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

Friedrich Schiller
Brother, Men, Charity

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

Friedrich Schiller
Dream, Lying, Play
"Theklo", Stanza 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 109-113, 1922.

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Law, Creative
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Tools, Pleasure
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Sweet, Eye
Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.15

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Friedrich Schiller
Soil, Strange, Thrive
"Demetrius". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 1, February 15, 1857.

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