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
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
The universe is a thought of God.
Even weak men when united are powerful.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
Truth lives on in the midst of deception....
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
I am better than my reputation