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Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Reality, Conquer

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller
Birthday, Power, Idols
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Men, Hands

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Friedrich Schiller
Age, Gray
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Dying, Benefits

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Hands, Nurse
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

Friedrich Schiller
Abandon, Satisfied, Guardianship
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

Friedrich Schiller
Night, Clouds, Hopeful
"Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Dust, Names

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Friedrich Schiller
Dream, Song, Truth
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.147

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Friedrich Schiller
Soul, Like You, Weak
"Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love)". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act V, Scene VII), April 13, 1784.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

Friedrich Schiller
Slumber, Backgrounds, Knows
"Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. i, 1787.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Flames, Funeral

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Friedrich Schiller
Daughter, Art, Mean
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3324, 谷月社

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

Friedrich Schiller
Nature, Ocean, Swim

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...

Friedrich Schiller
Love, Wise, Wisdom
"Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Friedrich Schiller
Clouds, Building, Poor

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Friedrich Schiller
Death, Dying, Doe

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Friedrich Schiller
God, Self, Demand
Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.81, Courier Corporation

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Angel, Dark

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Blooming, Fields

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich Schiller
Power, Literature, World

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller
Wisdom, Fate, Literature

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Friedrich Schiller
Lying, Playing Games, Deep Meaning

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

Friedrich Schiller
Hate, Enemy, Zeal
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.567

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