Top 100 Schiller Quotes
#1. Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.
Frederick C. Beiser
#2. Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#4. The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.
Frederick C. Beiser
#5. On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
Will Durant
#6. Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.
David Markson
#7. We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.
Christopher Hitchens
#8. I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
Vladimir Nabokov
#9. If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
Friedrich Schiller
#10. Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.
Frederick C. Beiser
#11. We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing. - Friedrich Schiller
Mason Currey
#12. Let no one despair,
even though in the darkest night
the last star of hope my disappear.
Friedrich Schiller
Rick Yancey
#13. Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.
Isaac Asimov
#14. We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller's stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world.
Steve Garvey
#15. The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Christopher Hitchens
#16. What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.
Brian Morton
#17. Schiller has said, the only relation with the public of which a man never repents - is war.
Anonymous
#18. A kiss on the lips and a dagger in the heart,' as in Schiller's Robbers.7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell
#20. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.
John Kennedy Toole
#21. Herr Schiller? Are there really any such things as ghosts?' The old man did not even show surprise at the question. He heaved a sigh. 'Yes Pia, there are. But never the ones you expect.
Helen Grant
#24. It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
#25. When backed into a corner, a victim has two options: he can lie down and die, or, he can fight regardless of the odds.
Marc Schiller
#26. 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
#27. Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
Friedrich Schiller
#28. Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Friedrich Schiller
#29. Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.
Vivian Schiller
#30. For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent ... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Herbert Schiller
#31. To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
Friedrich Schiller
#32. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Friedrich Schiller
#35. Our sex is called timid and weak; believe it no more! We tremble at a spider, but the black monster, corruption, we hug to our arms in sport!
Friedrich Schiller
#36. We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
Friedrich Schiller
#39. There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.
Phil Schiller
#40. The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller
#41. In order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.
Friedrich Schiller
#45. One thing that is wrongly hyped is social media For many media organizations, they think it of it as distribution, and yes it's good for that. What's missing is the power of social media for engagement with the audience and for newsgathering.
Vivian Schiller
#48. Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone, and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone.
Phil Schiller
#49. Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.
Friedrich Schiller
#50. Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation.
Friedrich Schiller
#51. Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller
#53. The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Friedrich Schiller
#54. The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
Friedrich Schiller
#56. If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.
Friedrich Schiller
#57. We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Friedrich Schiller
#59. Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
Friedrich Schiller
#60. Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Friedrich Schiller
#61. You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
Friedrich Schiller
#63. I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.
Phil Schiller
#64. Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Friedrich Schiller
#65. The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.
Vivian Schiller
#66. There's a role for the Mac as far as our eye can see. A role in conjunction with smartphones and tablets that allows you to make the choice of what you want to use. Our view is, the Mac keeps going forever, because the differences it brings are really valuable.
Phil Schiller
#67. A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.
Friedrich Schiller
#68. The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.
Friedrich Schiller
#69. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich Schiller
#72. To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
Friedrich Schiller
#73. When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
Friedrich Schiller
#76. In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Friedrich Schiller
#77. Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller
#78. The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.
Herbert Schiller
#80. What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials ... the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish.
Phil Schiller
#81. It's always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features.
Phil Schiller
#82. Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.
Herbert Schiller
#83. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
Friedrich Schiller
#85. Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Friedrich Schiller
#88. Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children's books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic. We also love "Tacky the Penguin", and I love "Guji Guji" - all because they teach great life lessons without being teachy.
Abbie Schiller
#91. I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer."
Lawrence Schiller
#92. It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller
#95. Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
Friedrich Schiller
#96. He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Friedrich Schiller
#99. A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
Friedrich Schiller
#100. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller
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