Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Freude ist die Triebfeder von allem

English translation:

joy drives everything; joy is the driving force behind everything

Added to glossary by Hilary Davies Shelby
Mar 21, 2006 10:31
18 yrs ago
German term

Freude ist die Triebfeder von allem

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Schiller quote
Morning!

I'm looking for a good translation of what is apparently a Schiller quote: "Freude ist die Triebfeder von allem". I can't even find the original on Google, so any help is much appreciated!

VG,

Hilary.

Discussion

Hilary Davies Shelby (asker) Mar 21, 2006:
From the client Just got this from the client: "Es handelt sich dabei nicht um ein Zitat, sondern nur um eine sinngemäße Wiedergabe." <Sigh> Sorry for the confusion, everyone, and many thanks for the suggestions!
Emilie Mar 21, 2006:
Ode to Joy
Freude heisst die starke Feder Joy is called the strong motivation
In der ewigen Natur. In eternal nature.
Freude, Freude, treibt die Raeder Joy, joy moves the wheels
In der grossen Weltenuhr. In the universal time machine.

Hilary Davies Shelby (asker) Mar 21, 2006:
I wondered that myself - i think you could be right...
Ian M-H (X) Mar 21, 2006:
in *der*, of course...
Sorry; Linguistically Challenged of Bremen
Ian M-H (X) Mar 21, 2006:
Could this be a corruption of the following from "An die Freude"?
Freude heißt die starke Feder
in der ewigen Natur;
Freude, Freude treibt die Räder
in the großen Weltenuhr.

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joy drives everything

If it isn't a Schiller quote, or even if it is...
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agree IC -- : This is neat!!
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See sentence below

"Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round. "


It seems to be this one, from the poem "Hymn To Joy". At least it was the closest I could find.
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agree Stephen Sadie : this fits the style and the lovely music, too
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Joy is the mainspring in the whole

Found this Schiller quote at the web reference:
"Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great timepiece of Creation."

From the 2nd web reference:
"Joy Is the mainspring in the whole
round of everlasting nature: joy moves
the wheels of the great timepiece of the
world; she it Is that loosens flowers
from their buds, suns from their firmaments,
rolling spheres in distant space
seen not by the glass of the astronome~.~
Schiller."

And from a 3rd source ( http://earthstep.org/joy!.htm ):
"Joy is the mainspring in the whole of nature's endless calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll in the great timepiece of creation." Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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