Schiller Quotes & Sayings

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

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. — Friedrich Schiller

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. — Friedrich Schiller

Truth lives on in the midst of deception ... — Friedrich Schiller

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

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. — Friedrich Schiller

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. — Friedrich Schiller

The first great law is to obey. — Friedrich Schiller

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart. — Friedrich Schiller

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! — Friedrich Schiller

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

To save all we must risk all. — 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

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

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure. — Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. — Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. — Friedrich Schiller

Even weak men when united are powerful. — Friedrich Schiller

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. — Friedrich Schiller

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

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

The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media. — Vivian Schiller

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world. — Lawrence Schiller

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

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. — Friedrich Schiller

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. — Friedrich Schiller

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude. — Sigmund Freud

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. — Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. — Friedrich Schiller

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system. — Herbert Schiller

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue — Friedrich Schiller

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. — Friedrich Schiller

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller

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

Life did not present its sunny side to thee. — Friedrich Schiller

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heaven's journey still, and adjourn not. — 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

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

Innocence has a friend in heaven. — Friedrich Schiller

The mind is the eyesight of the soul. — Friedrich Schiller

It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it. — Frederick Schiller Faust

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain. — Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown. — Friedrich Schiller

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. — Friedrich Schiller

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear. — 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

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

Our age is enlightened ... How is it, then, that we still remain barbarians? — Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. — Friedrich Schiller

There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?' — Phil Schiller

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity. — Friedrich Schiller

A deep meaning often lies in old customs. — Friedrich Schiller

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested. — Herbert Schiller

There is a nobility in the world of manners. — Friedrich Schiller

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts. — Friedrich Schiller

The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people. — Ron Schiller

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same. — Lawrence Schiller

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate. — Friedrich Schiller

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. — Friedrich Schiller

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. — Friedrich Schiller

A girl by any other name still smells as sweet, and, baby, you sure do smell good. — M.K. Schiller

The happy man does not notice the flight of time. — Friedrich Schiller

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

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. — Friedrich Schiller

The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category. — Phil Schiller

Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the human being into a momentary dream of freedom, but actually to MAKE him free. — Friedrich Schiller

World history is the world's court — Friedrich Schiller

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

Obedience is the Christian's crown. — Friedrich Schiller

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

We shall be free, just as our fathers were. — Friedrich Schiller

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed. — Frederick Schiller Faust

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful. — Friedrich Schiller

To all the girls I've loved before,
To Sylvie, Sophie, Gabrielle and Lenore,
The raven may tap and crow upon my door,
But regardless of any plans of fate, or enticing lures,
I promise to love you forevermore. — M.K. Schiller

Where there is much freedom there is much error. — Friedrich Schiller

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. — Friedrich Schiller

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction. — Herbert Schiller

Dear is my friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should. — Friedrich Schiller

Satisfy a few to please many is bad. — Friedrich Schiller

The universe is one of God's thoughts. — Friedrich Schiller

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. — Friedrich Schiller

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

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. — Friedrich Schiller

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little. — Friedrich Schiller

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law. — Friedrich Schiller

I am my own heaven and hell! — Friedrich Schiller

Life is earnest, art is gay. — Friedrich Schiller