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
Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
Weep, for the light is dead.
The world's history is the world's judgment.
From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?