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
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.
Great souls suffer in silence.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Great souls endure in silence.
Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from my brow --No night but hath its morn.
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