Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on History
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Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
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Translation: World history is the world's court.
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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
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Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
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The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.
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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.