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Letter "F" » Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
«Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Disappointment
| Keywords:
disappointments, thunder
«Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Power,
Rhetoric
| Keywords:
persuasive, rhetoric
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Morality,
Prosperity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily»
«Votes should be weighed, not counted»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Voting
| Keywords:
counted, votes, weighed
«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»
«A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Guests
| Keywords:
feast, fits, gloomy, guest, wedding, weddings, wedding guest
«Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.»
«In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.»
«Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present»
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