Friedrich Schiller Quotes about Destiny

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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Spiritual, Spring, Destiny

Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Fate, Destiny, Hands

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Destiny, Prudent, Failing

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

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Friedrich Schiller

Fate, Destiny, Complaining

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”