10 Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Destiny

Friedrich von Schiller quotes on destiny

16. Who dares impede my progress? Who presume The spirit to control which guideth me? Still must the arrow wing its destined flight! Where danger is, there must Johanna be; Nor now, nor here, am I foredoomed to fall; Our monarch's royal brow I first must see Invested with the round of sovereignty. No hostile power can rob me of my life, Till I've accomplished the commands of God.

63. In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

66. The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

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73. There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny.

81. No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, Who's made the master of his destiny.

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91. 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.

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104. Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

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122. Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

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124. Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

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137. There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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