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
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Votes should be weighed not counted.
No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
Art is the daughter of freedom.