Quote #88
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Friedrich von Schiller
- Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of foll…
- The universe is a thought of God. After this ideal thought-fabric passed out into reality, and the new-born world fulfilled the plan of its…
- The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the f…
- I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, - through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
- The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have …
- 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…
- The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.
- A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.