Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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
Backward
Historian
Prophet
Turned
Face
Faces
Historians
Prophets
More quotes by Friedrich Schiller
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.
Friedrich Schiller
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
Friedrich Schiller
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world I have loved.
Friedrich Schiller
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Friedrich Schiller
Youth covets let not this covetousness seduce you.
Friedrich Schiller
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Friedrich Schiller
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
Friedrich Schiller
The brave person thinks of himself last of all.
Friedrich Schiller
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
Friedrich Schiller
The world's history is the world's judgment.
Friedrich Schiller
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich Schiller
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
Friedrich Schiller
What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
Friedrich Schiller
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
Modest humility is beauty's crown.
Friedrich Schiller
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Friedrich Schiller
Live with your century but do not be its creature.
Friedrich Schiller
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
Friedrich Schiller
Stubbornness is not firmness.
Friedrich Schiller
Freedom exists only with power.
Friedrich Schiller
