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
Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Man is an imitative creature.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
I feel that I am a man of destiny.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Even weak men when united are powerful.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.