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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Friedrich Schiller
Taken, Liberty, Crowds

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Friedrich Schiller
Sports, Men, Feelings

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Circles, Growth

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich Schiller
Happiness, Men, Willpower

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Friedrich Schiller
Literature, Converting, Opposition

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Friedrich Schiller
Friendship, Forgiveness, World

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Inspiration, Night
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller
Stupid, Ignorance, Vain
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Knowledge
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Ocean, Boat
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

Friedrich Schiller
Regret, Character, Creating
Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller”, p.45, Litres

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, People, Looks

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Friedrich Schiller
Blessing, Love Is, Noble
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Friedrich Schiller
Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.5, 谷月社

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Friedrich Schiller
Coward, Done, Action

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Sides, Sunny
"Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.

I am better than my reputation

Friedrich Schiller
Reputation
Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume Two”, p.285, Oberon Books

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

Friedrich Schiller
Science, Cows, Goddess

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Friedrich Schiller
Laughing, Firsts, Jest
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.698, Delphi Classics

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Friedrich Schiller
Happiness, Duty, Discharge

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Friedrich Schiller
Cutting, Men, Circles
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.25, Courier Corporation

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Friedrich Schiller
Kings, Pride, Men
Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.260

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Friedrich Schiller
Past, Arrows, Forever
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Friedrich Schiller
Beautiful, Flower, Birth

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Fate
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

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