Friedrich Schiller Quotes about Past

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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Friedrich Schiller

Past, Forever, Stills

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Friedrich Schiller

Past, Arrows, Forever

Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

Friedrich Schiller

Past, Space, History