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But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Friedrich Schiller
Artist, Age, Sides
Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

Even weak men when united are powerful.

Friedrich Schiller
Powerful, Men, Weak Man

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Friedrich Schiller
Fate, Destiny, Complaining

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Restless, Constant
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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

Friedrich Schiller
Men, May, Rogues

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Play, Literature
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3621, Delphi Classics

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Friedrich Schiller
Father, Land, Native

To the fool-king belongs the world.

Friedrich Schiller
Kings, World, Fool
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Friedrich Schiller
Lying, Deep Meaning, Customs
"Maria Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene 7, line 131), June 14, 1800.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Friedrich Schiller
Iron, Chains, Cords

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

Friedrich Schiller
Spy, Done, World

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

Friedrich Schiller
Spring, Eye, Joy

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

Friedrich Schiller
Fall, Sunshine, Night
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.81

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Friedrich Schiller
Healthy, Needs, Immortality

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Friedrich Schiller
Wind, Together, Ants

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Friedrich Schiller
Race, Order, Individuality
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.38, Courier Corporation

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Friedrich Schiller
Ideas, Creative, Mind

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Friedrich Schiller
Fear, Moments

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Nature, Men, Flames
Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.270, Executive Intelligence Review

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Pain, Struggle
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Friedrich Schiller
Causes, Force, Righteous

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

Friedrich Schiller
1801 DieJungfrau von Orle ans, act1, sc.5.

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Evil, Deeds

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
Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Friedrich Schiller
Real, Ideas, Poetry
Friedrich Schiller (1981). “On the naive and sentimental in literature”

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