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
We must bear what Heaven sends.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
Innocence has a friend in heaven.
The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
Even weak men when united are powerful.
The universe is a thought of God.
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.
One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.