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
If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart. What is life without the radiance of love?
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.
The May of life blooms once and never again.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
His saying was: live and let live.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.