Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schillerwas a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life, Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1759
CountryGermany
Friedrich Schiller quotes about
The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
Keep true to the dream of thy youth.
Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from my brow --No night but hath its morn.
He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.