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The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

Friedrich Schiller
Reading, Ignorance, Thinking
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.

Friedrich Schiller
Daughter, Sweet, Brother
"Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller, (Stanza 1), 1785.

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

Friedrich Schiller
Past, Space, History

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

Friedrich Schiller
Hero, Virtue, Fame
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.545

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

Friedrich Schiller
Spiritual, Encouragement, Art
"Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

Friedrich Schiller
Real, Thinking, Artist

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Friedrich Schiller
Work, Done, May
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.224

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Friedrich Schiller
Kindness, Poison, Milk
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 609-10, Wilhelm Tell, IV. 3. 3, 1922.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Friedrich Schiller
Writing, Creativity, Ideas

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Friedrich Schiller
Appreciation, Passion, Role Models

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Friedrich Schiller
Giving, Giving Back, Graves
"Funeral Fantasy" by Friedrich Schiller,

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Friedrich Schiller
World, Misery, Whole
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.583

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Hands, Giving

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Hours, Claims
"An die Freude", Stanza 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Youth, Seducing

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Friedrich Schiller
Christian, Crowns, Obedience
Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Friedrich Schiller
Needs, Veils, Sun

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Wind, Storm
"Wilhelm Tell", IV. 1. 59, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 753-54, 1922.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

Friedrich Schiller
Christian, Obedience, Deck
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.177

I feel an army in my fist.

Friedrich Schiller
Army, Fists, Feels
"The Robbers". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1781.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Soldier, Looks

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Goal, Forget
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1158, 谷月社

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

Friedrich Schiller
Spring, Blood, Years

The world's history is the world's judgment.

Friedrich Schiller
World, Judgment
"Resignation" (1786)

Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Friedrich Schiller
Heaven, Earth, Have Faith
"The Common School Journal" edited by Horace Mann, Vol. IX, (p. 386), 1847.

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