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
To save all we must risk all.
As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.
Intellect--brain force.