Friedrich Schiller - Quotations

Quotations

  • "Stay true to the dreams of thy youth." (Elizabeth, in: Don Carlos)
  • "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens," which means "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." (Talbot, in: The Maid of Orleans)
  • "Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life."
  • "Eine Grenze hat die Tyrannenmacht", which literally means "A tyrant's power has a limit" (a Swiss freedom fighter, in: Wilhelm Tell)
  • "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice." (Talbot, in: Maria Stuart)
  • "It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."
  • "Live with your century but do not be its creature." (From On the Aesthetic Education of Man)

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