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Utility Is The Great Idol Of The Age, To Which All Powers Must Do Service And All Talents Swear Allegiance. In This Great Balance Of Utility, The Spiritual Service Of Art Has No Weight, And, Deprived Of All Encouragement, It Vanishes From The Noisy Vanity Fair Of Our Time.

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Utility Is The Great

Friedrich Schiller

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Utility Is The Great Idol Of The Age, To Which All Powers Must Do Service And All Talents Swear Allegiance. In This Great Balance Of Utility, The Spiritual Service Of Art Has No Weight, And, Deprived Of All Encouragement, It Vanishes From The Noisy Vanity Fair Of Our Time.

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You Worthy Critics, Or Whatever You May Call Yourselves, Are Ashamed Or Afraid Of The Momentary And Passing Madness Which Is Found In All Real Creators, The Longer Or Shorter Duration Of Which Distinguishes The Thinking Artist From The Dreamer. Hence Your Complaints Of Unfruitfulness, For You Reject Too Soon And Discriminate Too Severely.

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I Have Enjoyed Earthly Happiness, I Have Lived And Loved.

The Future Comes Slowly, The Present Flies And The Past Stands Still Forever.

I Know That We Often Tremble At An Empty Terror; Yet The False Fancy Brings A Real Misery.

Gray Hairs Are Death's Blossoms.

Rigor Pushed Too Far Is Sure To Miss Its Aim, However Good, As The Bow Snaps That Is Bent Too Stiffly.

The History Of The World Is The World's Court Of Justice.

Let No One Despair, Even Though In The Darkest Night The Last Star Of Hope May Disappear.

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.

I Am Better Than My Reputation

Forgiveness Is The Divinest Of Victories.

Arrow-swift The Present Sweepeth, And Motionless Forever Stands The Past.

The Lamp Of Genius Burns Quicker Than The Lamp Of Life.

Honor Women! They Entwine And Weave Heavenly Roses In Our Earthly Life.

To Be Man's Tender Mate Was Woman Born, And In Obeying Nature She Best Serves The Purposes Of Heaven.

No Greater Grief Than To Remember Days Of Gladness When Sorrow Is At Hand.

Rarely Do We Arrive At The Summit Of Truth Without Running Into Extremes; We Have Frequently To Exhaust The Part Of Error, And Even Of Folly, Before We Work Our Way Up To The Noble Goal Of Tranquil Wisdom.

Obedience Is The Christian's Crown.

Live With Your Century; But Do Not Be Its Creature.

Only The Soldier Is A Free Man, Because He Can Look Death In The Face.

Not He Who Scorns The Saviour's Yoke Should Wear His Cross Upon The Heart.

It Hinders The Creative Work Of The Mind If The Intellect Examines Too Closely The Ideas As They Pour In.

Intellect--brain Force.

It Is Difficult To Discriminate The Voice Of Truth From Amid The Clamor Raised By Heated Partisans.

In The Society, Where People Are Just Parts In A Larger Machine, Individuals Are Unable To Develop Fully.

Doch Zittre Vor Der Langsamen, Der Stillen Macht Der Zeit. Yet Tremble At The Slow, Silent Power Of Time.

Appearance Should Never Attain Reality, And If Nature Conquers, Then Must Art Retire.

Song Forbids Victorious Deeds To Die.

O Tender Yearning, Sweet Hoping! The Golden Time Of First Love! The Eye Sees The Open Heaven, The Heart Is Intoxicated With Bliss; O That The Beautiful Time Of Young Love Could Remain Green Forever.

It Is Play And Only Play That Makes Man Complete.

Virtue Is No Empty Echo.

The Worst Of Me Is Known, And I Can Say That I Am Better Than The Reputation I Bear.

Stubbornness Is Not Firmness.

One Drop Of Hatred Left In The Cup Of Joy Turns The Most Blissful Draught Into Poison.

Not Without A Shudder May The Human Hand Reach Into The Mysterious Urn Of Destiny.

Wise To Resolve, Patient To Perform.

A Gloomy Guest Fits Not A Wedding Feast.

The Jest Loses Its Point When He Who Makes It Is The First To Laugh.

Foster The Beautiful, And Every Hour Thou Tallest New Flowers To Birth.

Spring Flies, And With It All The Train It Leads; And Flowers, In Fading, Leave Us But Their Seeds.

But How Is The Artist To Protect Himself Against The Corruption Of The Age Which Besets Him On All Sides?

Heaven And Earth Fight In Vain Against A Dunce!

Cling To Thy Native Land, For It Is The Land Of Thy Fathers?

The First Great Law Is To Obey.

Great Souls Suffer In Silence.

There Are Occasions When The General Belief Of The People, Even Though It Be Groundless, Works Its Effect As Sure As Truth Itself.

Deep Meaning Lies Often In Childish Play.

In A Narrow Circle The Mind Grows Narrow. The More One Expands, The Larger Their Aims.

If You Would Attain To Your Highest, Go Look Upon A Flower;what The Flower Does Willessly, That Do Willingly.

Folly, Thou Conquerest, And I Must Yield! Against Stupidity The Very Gods Themselves Contend In Vain. Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter Of The Head Divine, Wise Foundress Of The System Of The World, Guide Of The Stars, Who Are Thou Then, If Thou, Bound To The Tail Of Folly's Uncurb'd Steed, Must, Vainly Shrieking, With The Drunken Crowd, Eyes Open, Plunge Down Headlong In The Abyss.

Ever Building, Building To The Clouds, Still Building Higher, And Never Reflecting That The Poor Narrow Basis Cannot Sustain The Giddy Tottering Column.

Obedience Decks The Christian Most.

As Freely As The Firmament Embraces The World, So Mercy Must Encircle Friend And Foe. The Sun Poursforth Impartially His Beams Through All The Regions Of Infinity; Heaven Bestows The Dew Equally On Every Thirsty Plant. Whatever Is Good And Comes From On High Is Universal And Without Reserve: But In The Heart's Recesses Darkness Dwells.

The Dream Is Short, Repentance Long.

When The Gods Were More Manlike, Men Were More Godlike.

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.

Posterity Weaves No Garlands For Imitators.

A Sublime Soul Can Rise To All Kinds Of Greatness, But By An Effort; It Can Tear Itself From All Bondage, To All That Limits And Constrains It, But Only By Strength Of Will. Consequently The Sublime Soul Is Only Free By Broken Efforts.

A Beautiful Soul Has No Other Merit Than Its Own Existence.

When You Are Not Happy With Your Life, Always Think That Someone Is Happy Simply Because You Exist

It May Here Be Justly Said, That Genuine Morality Is Preserved Only In The School Of Adversity, And A State Of Continuous Prosperity May Easily Prove A Quicksand To Virtue.

Mankind Is Made Great Or Little By Its Own Will.

Innocence Has A Friend In Heaven.

I Speak With The Eternal Through The Instrument Of Nature, Through The World's History: I Read The Soul Of The Artist In His Apollo.

To The Fool-king Belongs The World.

Joy All Creatures Drink At Nature's Bosoms.

Accursed Be He Who Plays With The Devil.

I Am My Own Heaven And Hell!

Life Is Earnest, Art Is Gay.

What Is Life Without The Radiance Of Love?

No Emperor Has The Power To Dictate To The Heart.

When The Measured Dance Of The Hours Brings Back The Happy Smile Of Spring, The Buried Dead Is Born Again In The Life-glance Of The Sun. The Germs Which Perished To The Eye Within The Cold Breast Of The Earth Spring Up With Joy In The Bright Realm Of Day.

To Rankling Poison Hast Thou Turned In Me The Milk Of Human Kindness.

Yes Great People Are Always Subject To Persecution And Always Getting Into Straits.

Art Is Difficult, Transient Is Her Reward.

A Noble Heart Will Always Capitulate To Reason.

The Storm Is Master. Man, As A Ball, Is Tossed Twixt Winds And Billows.

There Is A Nobility In The World Of Manners.

If Thou Art Something Bring Thy Soul And Interchange With Mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller.

The Dictates Of The Heart Are The Voice Of Fate.

He Cannot Complain Of A Hard Sentence, Who Is Made Master Of His Own Fate.

Votes Should Be Weighed Not Counted.

Most Gladly Would I Give The Blood-stained Laurel For The First Violet Which March Brings Us, The Fragrant Pledge Of The New-fledged Year.

Illusion Is Brief, But Repentance Is Long.

Egotism Erects Its Center In Itself; Love Places It Out Of Itself In The Axis Of The Universal Whole. Love Aims At Unity, Egotism At Solitude. Love Is The Citizen Ruler Of A Flourishing Republic, Egotism Is A Despot In A Devastated Creation. Egotism Sows For Gratitude, Love For The Ungrateful. Love Gives, Egotism Lends; And Love Does This Before The Throne Of Judicial Truth, Indifferent If For The Enjoyment Of The Following Moment, Or With The View To A Martyr's Crown--indifferent Whether The Reward Is In This Life Or In The Next.

Art Is The Right Hand Of Nature.

For The World Is Only Governed By Self-interest.

There Is No Such Thing As Chance; And What Seem To Us Merest Accident Springs From The Deepest Source Of Destiny.

Man Ever Talks, And Man Ever Dreams Of Better Days That Are Yet To Be, After Glittering Goal, That Distant Gleams, Running And Racing Untiringly. The Worldly May Grow Old And Young As It Will, But The Hope Of Man Is Improvement Still. Hope Bears Him Into Life In Her Arms, She Flutters Around The Boy's Young Bloom, The Soul Of Youth With Her Magic Warms, Nor Rests With Age In The Silent Tomb; For Ends Man His Weary Course At The Grave, There Plants He Hope O'er His Ashes To Wave.

False Fancy Brings Real Misery.

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What The Inner Voice Says Will Not Disappoint The Hoping Soul.

The Gentlest Man Cannot Live In Peace If It Does Not Please His Wicked Neighbor.

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Who Dares Nothing, Need Hope For Nothing.

Time Flies On Restless Pinions - Constant Never.

A Virtuous Name Is The Precious Only Good, For Which Queens And Peasants' Wives Must Contest Together.

Many A Crown Shines Spotless Now That Yet Was Deeply Sullied In The Winning.

If We Do Not Find Anything Very Pleasant, At Least We Shall Find Something New.

A Healthy Nature Needs No God Or Immortality

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Ah, To That Far Distant Strand Bridge There Was Not To Convey, Not A Bark Was Near At Hand, Yet True Love Soon Found The Way.

Speech Is Always Bolder Than Action.

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Even The Weak Become Strong When They Are United.

Be True, And Thou Shalt Fetter Time With Everlasting Chain.

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Only Through Beauty's Morning-gate, Dost Thou Penetrate The Land Of Knowledge.

He Who Neglects The Present Moment Throws Away All He Has.

An Axe At Home Saves Hiring A Carpenter.

The Will Of Man Is His Happiness.

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.

Accomplish Nothing

Death Is A Mighty Mediator. There All The Flames Of Rage Are Extinguished, Hatred Is Appeased, And Angelic Pity, Like A Weeping Sister, Bends With Gentle And Close Embrace Over The Funeral Urn.

Love Guides The Stars Towards Each Other, The World Plan Endures Only Through Love.

The Joke Loses Everything When The Joker Laughs Himself.

The Average Estimate Themselves By What They Do, The Above Average By What They Are.

Thus Arm In Arm With Thee I Dare Defy My Century Into The Lists.

O That It Might Remain Eternally Green, The Beautiful Time Of Youthful Love.

Our Safety Is Not In Blindness, But In Facing Our Dangers.

Satisfied If They Themselves Can Escape From The Hard Labour Of Thought, They Willingly Abandon To Others The Guardianship Of Their Thoughts.

From The Moment Fear Begins I Have Ceased To Fear.

Culture, Far From Giving Us Freedom, Only Develops, As It Advances, New Necessities; The Fetters Of The Physical Close More Tightly Around Us, So That The Fear Of Loss Quenches Even The Ardent Impulse Toward Improvement, And The Maxims Of Passive Obedience Are Held To Be The Highest Wisdom Of Life.

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Worthless Is The Nation That Does Not Gladly Stake Its All On Its Honor.

It Is Not The Mere Station Of Life That Stamps The Value On Us, But The Manner In Which We Act Our Part.

Glory To Women! They Weave And Entwine Heavenly Roses Into An Earthly Life.

O'er Ocean, With A Thousand Masts, Sails Forth The Stripling Bold- One Boat, Hard Rescued From The Deep, Draws Into Port The Old!

Against Stupidity The Very Gods Themselves Contend In Vain.

This Is The Curse Of An Evil Deed, That It Incites And Must Bring Forth More Evil.

Historians Are Prophets With Their Face Turned Backward.

The Greater Part Of Humanity Is Too Much Harassed And Fatigued By The Struggle With Want, To Rally Itself For A New And Sterner Struggle With Error.

In The Ardor Of Pursuit Men Soon Forget The Goal From Which They Start.

Truth Is More Than A Dream And A Song.

Dare To Be Wrong And To Dream.

To Know Thyself--in Others Self-concern; Would'st Thou Know Others? Read Thyself--and Learn!

There Are Evil Spirits Who Suddenly Fix Their Abode In Man's Unguarded Breast, Causing Us To Commit Devilish Deeds, And Then, Hurrying Back To Their Native Hell, Leave Behind The Stings Of Remorse In The Poisoned Bosom.

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.

The Iron Chain And The Silken Cord Are Both Equally Bonds.

Peace Is Rarely Denied To The Peaceful.

Wouldst Thou Know Thyself, Observe The Actions Of Others. Wouldst Thou Other Men Know, Look Thou Within Thine Own Heart.

Many A Smiling Face Hides A Mourning Heart; But Grief Alone Teaches Us What We Are.

Of All The Possessions Of This Life Fame Is The Noblest; When The Body Has Sunk Into The Dust The Great Name Still Lives.

His Saying Was: Live And Let Live.

Live And Let Live

Uncommon Men Require No Common Trust; Give Him But Scope And He Will Set The Bounds.

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.

Will It, And Set To Work Briskly.

Anyone Taken As An Individual Is Tolerably Sensible And Reasonable - As A Member Of A Crowd, He At Once Becomes A Blockhead.

Sorrow Is Brief But Joy Is Endless

Did You Think The Lion Was Sleeping Because He Didn't Roar?

On Dreary Night Let Lusty Sunshine Fall.

Revenge Is Barren Of Itself: It Is The Dreadful Food It Feeds On; Its Delight Is Murder, And Its End Is Despair.

Man Is Never So Authentically Himself As When At Play.

Even Weak Men When United Are Powerful.

Like A Dart The Present Glances, Silent Stands The Past Sublime.

Every True Genius Is Bound To Be Naive.

The Strong Man Is Strongest When Alone.

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.

What's Old Collapses, Times Change, And New Life Blossoms In The Ruins.

Forgiveness Is The Finding Again Of A Lost Possession.

It Would Be Necessary That They Should Be Already Sages To Love Wisdom...

Men Show No Mercy And Expect No Mercy, When Honor Calls, Or When They Fight For Their Idols Or Their Gods.

Appearance Rules The World.

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.

Fear Of Death Is Worse Than Dying.

Think With Awe On The Slow And Quiet Power Of Time.

It Is Not Flesh And Blood, But Heart Which Makes Us Fathers And Sons.

Art Is The Daughter Of Freedom.

I Have Enjoyed The Happiness Of The World; I Have Loved.

A Pity About The People! They Are Brave Enough Comrades, But They Have Heads Like A Soapboiler's.

The Hat Is The Pride Of Man; For He Who Cannot Keep His Hat On Before Kings And Emperors Is No Free Man.

It Is Through Beauty That We Arrive At Freedom.

Happy He Who Learns To Bear What He Cannot Change.

You Make Me Happy

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.

Against Stupidity, God Himself Fights In Vain.

Love Is The Reward Of Love.

Chains Of Iron Or Of Silk-both Are Chains.

You Saw His Weakness, And He Will Never Forgive You.

Let Him That Sows The Serpent's Teeth Not Hope To Reap A Joyous Harvest. Every Crime Has, In The Moment Of Its Perpetration, Its Own Avenging Angel,--dark Misgivings At The Inmost Heart.

Pain Is Short, And Joy Is Eternal.

Courage, Ne'er By Sorrow Broken! Aid Where Tears Of Virtue Flow; Faith To Keep Each Promise Spoken! Truth Alike To Friend And Foe!

A Deep Meaning Often Lies In Old Customs.

There Is No Solitude In Nature.

Why Should I Deem Myself To Be A Chisel, When I Could Be The Artist?

It Does Not Prove A Thing To Be Right Because The Majority Say It Is So.

Seraphs Share With Thee Knowledge; But Art, O Man, Is Thine Alone!

Disappointments Are To The Soul What A Thunderstorm Is To The Air.

A Childlike Mind In Its Simplicity Practises That Science Of Good To Which The Wise May Be Blind.

Wine Invents Nothing; It Only Tattles.

Time Consecrates; And What Is Gray With Age Becomes Religion.

I Feel An Army In My Fist.

Alas! When Duty Grows Thy Law, Enjoyment Fades Away.

Strange Customs Do Not Thrive In Foreign Soil.

The Key To Education Is The Experience Of Beauty.

There Is Room In The Smallest Cottage For A Happy Loving Pair.

You Have To Go The Rounds From Individual To Individual In Order To Gather The Totality Of The Race.

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.

Each State Of The Human Mind Has Some Parable In The Physical Creation By Which It Is Shadowed Forth; Nor Is It Only Artists And Poets, But Even The Most Abstract Thinkers That Have Drawn From This Source. Lively Activity We Name Fire; Time Is A Stream That Rolls On, Sweeping All Before It; Eternity Is A Circle; A Mystery Is Hid In Midnight Gloom, And Truth Dwells In The Sun. Nay, I Begin To Believe That Even The Future Destiny Of The Human Race Is Prefigured In The Dark Oracular Utterances Of Bodily Creation.

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