Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Live with your century but do not be its creature.
Friedrich Schiller
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
Historian
Journalist
Librarian
Novelist
Philosopher
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Marbach/Neckar
Schillerean
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
Johann C. F. Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
Schiller
Fridrikh Shiller
Fridrikh Shiler
F. Shiller
Frideriko Schiller
Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Frederick Schiller
Hsi-le
Friedrich von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Live
Creature
Creatures
Century
Literature
More quotes by Friedrich Schiller
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
Friedrich Schiller
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.
Friedrich Schiller
To save all we must risk all.
Friedrich Schiller
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
Friedrich Schiller
Even the weak become strong when they are united.
Friedrich Schiller
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
Friedrich Schiller
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
Friedrich Schiller
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
Friedrich Schiller
I am better than my reputation
Friedrich Schiller
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
Friedrich Schiller
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
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich Schiller
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
Friedrich Schiller
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich Schiller
It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.
Friedrich Schiller
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
Friedrich Schiller
To know thyself--in others self-concern Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
Friedrich Schiller
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
Friedrich Schiller
