Schiller Quotes

Let them storm on. In fury let them rage!
Firm is this castle, and beneath its ruins
I will be buried ere I yield to them.
- Johanna, answer me! only be mine,
And I will shield thee 'gainst a world in arms. ~ Friedrich Schiller

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. ~ Friedrich Schiller

He utilized my skills during the day and I fantasized about his skills during the night. ~ M.K. 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

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Stubbornness is not firmness. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Votes should be weighed not counted. ~ Friedrich Schiller

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine. ~ 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

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

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

Beautiful Goethe, I anoint you with honey; Mr. Schiller, I hug you. ~ Karel Havlíček Borovský

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Life is earnest, art is gay. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence
and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here
and I have this living, overpowering feeling within me: from now on you can love nothing other than her, and in this world nothing else will ever have any effect on you. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

O God, how lovely still is life! ~ Friedrich Schiller

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Misery travels free through the whole world! ~ Friedrich Schiller

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Icouldn'tagreemore.I'msohonoredyouletmebeyourfirst,butIreallywanttobeyourlast."
Shecuppedhischin,smiling."Youaremyonly. ~ M.K. Schiller

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. ~ Friedrich Schiller

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless. ~ Herbert Schiller

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

It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made sharper divisions between the sciences inevitable, and once the increasingly complex machinery of State necessitated a more rigorous separation of ranks and occupations, then the inner unity of human nature was severed too, and a disastrous conflict set its harmonious powers at variance. The intuitive and the speculative understanding now withdrew in hostility to take up positions in their respective fields, whose frontiers they now began to guard with jealous mistrust; and with this confining of our activity to a particular sphere we have given ourselves a master within, who not infrequently ends by suppressing the rest of our potentialities. While in one a riotous imagination ravages the hard-won fruits of the intellect, in another the spirit of abstraction stifles the fire at which the heart should have warmed itself and the imagination been kindled. ~ Friedrich Schiller

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul. ~ Friedrich Schiller

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. ~ Friedrich Schiller

I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products. ~ Phil Schiller

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world. ~ Lawrence Schiller

Schiller has said, the only relation with the public of which a man never repents - is war. ~ Anonymous

Appearance rules the world. ~ Friedrich Schiller

For the world is only governed by self-interest. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade". ~ Herbert Schiller

I toured with the Dead ~ M.K. Schiller

It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made. ~ Friedrich Schiller

All things must; man is the only creature that wills. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The world's history is the world's judgment. ~ Friedrich Schiller

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor. ~ Friedrich Schiller

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. ~ Friedrich Schiller

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action. ~ Herbert Schiller

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding. ~ Ron Schiller

Man is never so authentically himself than when at play. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Love can sun the realms of night. ~ Friedrich Schiller

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require ... It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden ... into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike. ~ Friedrich Schiller

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone, and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone. ~ Phil Schiller

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Accursed be he who plays with the devil. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Misanthropy is a slow suicide. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Physics is the science of motion. ~ Christoph Schiller

When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with. ~ Phil Schiller

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine. ~ Herbert Schiller

The dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven. ~ Friedrich Schiller

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Stern is the visage of necessity. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Who did you pray for?"
I stared down at the lake. "I prayed for Mandy."
"That's so sweet."
"Yeah, I asked God to make her less annoying. ~ M.K. Schiller

Guess what? You're a MILF too, which in my book means a man I'd like to forget. ~ M.K. Schiller

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. ~ Friedrich Schiller

I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35. ~ Lawrence Schiller

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides? ~ Friedrich Schiller

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs. ~ Friedrich Schiller

His saying was: live and let live. ~ Friedrich Schiller

We must bear what Heaven sends. ~ Friedrich Schiller

When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way. ~ Lawrence Schiller

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? ~ Herbert Schiller

It doesn't matter if you're behind a locked door under the covers or walking around in the middle of the night. If something's gonna get you, it'll get you no matter what. ~ M.K. Schiller

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life. ~ Friedrich Schiller

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. ~ Friedrich Schiller

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. ~ Friedrich Schiller

When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. ~ Lawrence Schiller