“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”
“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