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
Even the weak become strong when they are united.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.