Quote #119

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Friedrich von Schiller

  1. Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
  2. Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
  3. It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
  4. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
  5. It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
  6. Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
  7. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
  8. No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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