Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

- Friedrich Schiller

Votes should be weighed not counted.

- Friedrich Schiller

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

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Friedrich Schiller

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

- Friedrich Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

- Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

- Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

- Friedrich Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

- Friedrich Schiller

Freedom can occur only through education.

- Friedrich Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

- Friedrich Schiller

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

- Friedrich Schiller

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

- Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

- Friedrich Schiller

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Friedrich Schiller

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

- Friedrich Schiller

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

- Friedrich Schiller

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

- Friedrich Schiller