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Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Friedrich Schiller
Childhood, Taught, Fairy Tale

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

Friedrich Schiller
Joy, Breastfeeding, Drink

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

Friedrich Schiller
Real, Fancy, Anticipation

Love can sun the realms of night.

Friedrich Schiller
Love, Night, Sun
Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.278

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Friedrich Schiller
Strong, Men, Solitude
Friedrich Schiller (1839). “William Tell: An Historical Play”, p.27

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.

Friedrich Schiller
Lying, Ideas, Imagination

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Friedrich Schiller
Lost, Possession, Findings

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Friedrich Schiller
Fighting, Heaven, Earth

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Friedrich Schiller
Morning, Land, Gates
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Science, Toil
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.79

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Friedrich Schiller
Honor, Doe, Stakes

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Friedrich Schiller
Destiny, Causes, Harsh
Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: History of the revolt of the Netherlands, continued. Wallenstein and Wilhelm Tell”, p.510

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Hands, Heaven
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1839). “Select Minor Poems: Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller”, p.222

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Friedrich Schiller
Thinking, Brave Person, Lasts

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Beautiful, Green

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Friedrich Schiller
Ebb And Flow, Tides, Judgment
Friedrich Schiller (1854). “The Works of Frederick Schiller ...: Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. The maid of Orleans. The bride of Messina”, p.246

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Wall, Eye

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Grief, Hands

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Arms, Lists

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller
Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Friedrich Schiller
Vanity, Hair, Gray

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Friedrich Schiller
Imitation, Garlands, Imitator
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Prologue), 1798.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.28, 谷月社

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Perfect, Mountain
"The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. vii, 1803.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Future, Adventure

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