Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Humanity
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On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
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The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.
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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.