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
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Great souls suffer in silence.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
He who considers too much will perform little.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Great souls endure in silence.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.