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
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.
The May of life blooms once and never again.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
His saying was: live and let live.
What is life without the radiance of love?