“They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
Friedrich Schiller
“There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”
Friedrich Schiller