248 quotes
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh,
Who's made the master of his destiny.
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Wallenstein (1798)
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.
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
Don Carlos (1787)
What one refuses in a minute
No eternity will return.
Resignation (1786)
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.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
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.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
Wallenstein (1798)
Dare to be wise! Energy and spirit is needed to overcome the obstacles which indolence of nature as well as cowardice of heart oppose to our instruction.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Wallenstein (1798)
What is life without the radiance of love?
Wallenstein (1798)
Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.
Maria Stuart (1800)
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Don Carlos (1787)
If you do not dare to die you will never win life.
What is not abandoned is never completely lost.
Maria Stuart (1800)
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?