Friedrich Schiller's best-known quotes
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: An axe in the house saves calling the carpenter. · If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few; pleasing many is bad. · The wise man plans ahead.. (Updated Sep 16, 2024.)
Schiller's lines that became everyday sayings in German, from William Tell, Wallenstein, The Song of the Bell and Ode to Joy, each with the work and speaker.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 14
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An axe in the house saves calling the carpenter.
William Tell, III, 1 / Tell.
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If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few; pleasing many is bad.
Tabulae votivae.
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The wise man plans ahead.
William Tell, I, 2 / Gertrud.
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Through this narrow pass he has to come; there is no other road to Küssnacht.
William Tell, IV, 3 / Tell.
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Even the most devout cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbour.
William Tell, IV, 3 / Tell.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The Maid of Orleans, III, 6 / Talbot.
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Life is serious, art is cheerful.
Wallenstein's Camp, prologue.
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The clock does not strike for the happy.
The Piccolomini, III, 3 / Max Piccolomini.
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You come late – but you come!
The Piccolomini, I, 1 / Illo.
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So let those who bind themselves forever test whether heart finds heart! Delusion is brief, regret is long.
The Song of the Bell.
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Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, daughter of Elysium
Ode to Joy, the words of Beethoven's Ninth.
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Man only plays when he is human in the fullest sense of the word, and he is only fully human when he plays.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man, 15th letter.
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Life is not the highest of goods, but the greatest of evils is guilt.
The Bride of Messina, final lines / chorus.
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What is the majority? The majority is nonsense; reason has always been with the few.
Demetrius / Prince Sapieha.
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That man can be helped.
The Robbers, V, 2 / Karl Moor.
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