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
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.