Dignity is the sensible expression of successfully willing to act in accordance with moral principles even at the cost of suppressing conflicting desires and feelings.

The next part of Schiller’s aesthetic argument against Kant is that dignity is a different moral condition than grace, and that it therefore naturally finds a different outward expression. While grace is the expression of a condition in which there is no tension between a person’s moral commitments and his desires, and where there is thus harmony between the explicitly willed aspects of his intentional motions and the instinctive aspects of them, dignity is the sensible expression of successfull