Friedrich Schiller Quotes

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."