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
He who considers too much will perform little.
A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.