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

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

Friedrich Schiller
Justice, Literature, World
"The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, 1945.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

Friedrich Schiller
"Wallenstein's Tod". Book by Friedrich Schiller, I. 4. 45, 1799.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Friedrich Schiller
Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Hands, Bridges
Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Friedrich Schiller
Winning, Venture, Prize
Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller
Running, Errors, Goal
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Friedrich Schiller
Courage, Men, Brave
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.577

The first great law is to obey.

Friedrich Schiller
Law, Firsts, Obedience
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.48

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

Friedrich Schiller
Dream, Stars, Prayer

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Children, Artist
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.51, Courier Corporation

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Thinking, Quiet

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Friedrich Schiller
Grace, Soul, Triumph
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3732, Delphi Classics

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Friedrich Schiller
Sympathy, Art, Soul

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.

Friedrich Schiller
Believe, Dark, Destiny
Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Friedrich Schiller
Wise, Simplicity, Mind

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Friedrich Schiller
Giving, Advice, Safe

His saying was: live and let live.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Gay, Life Is
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Friedrich Schiller
Play, Devil
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 192-93, Wallenstein's Tod, 1. 3. 64, 1922.

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

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Nurse, Ordinary
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. iv, 1798.

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

Friedrich Schiller
Freedom, Men, Born
"Die Worte des Glaubens", Stanza 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

Friedrich Schiller
Light, Joyful, Plant
Friedrich Schiller (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller”, p.469

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

Friedrich Schiller
Fear
Friedrich Schiller, John TOWLER (of Carlsruhe.) (1843). “Don Carlos ... Translated Into English Heroic Metre ... by I. Towler”, p.39

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Friedrich Schiller
Broken, Promise, Sorrow
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.65

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Friedrich Schiller
Fighting, Power, Crowns

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