I feel an army in my fist.

— Friedrich Schiller

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

— Friedrich Schiller

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. 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.

— Friedrich Schiller

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

— Friedrich Schiller

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass.

— Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

— Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

— Friedrich Schiller

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that constitutes him a man is that he does not remain stationary, where nature has placed him, that he can pass with his reason, retracing the steps nature had made him anticipate, that he can convert the work of necessity into one of free solution, and elevate physical necessity into a moral law.

— Friedrich Schiller

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

— Friedrich Schiller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

— Friedrich Schiller