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
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.
Against stupidity the very Gods themselves toil in vain
The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.
Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily
A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.