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
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Great souls suffer in silence.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Great souls endure in silence.
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.