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
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
The dream is short, repentance long.
Fear of death is worse than dying.
Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.
Truth is more than a dream and a song.
Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.