Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, typically called Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, historian and dramatist.
He was birthed as the kid of a military doctor, J. C. Schiller. His parents were not particularly affluent, but he was sent out to grade school and later Karlsschule (University), where he researched law as well as later on medication.
He read Rousseau and Goethe and also talked about Classical suitables with his fellow pupils. As a pupil he created his first play, Die Rauber, concerning a group of naive revolutionaries and their tragic destiny. Among his popular quotes is: "The initial law of decency is to preserve the freedom of others, the other is to demonstrate its own."
In 1780 he delivered his dissertations, as well as the army physician in Stuttgart. As a result of performance of Die Rauber in Mannheim in 1781 he was jailed and restricted to publish even more. He ran away via Leipzig as well as Dresden to Weimar in 1787. In 1789 he came to be professor of history as well as approach at Jena, where he released only historical works. 1790 he wed Charlotte von Lengenfeld, and also in 1799 he returned to Weimar, where Goethe persuaded him to continue writing plays. He and also Goethe established the Weimar Theater, which was to end up being a leading movie theater in Germany. He remained in Weimar till his death in 1805 of tuberculosis.
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain"
"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"
"Great souls suffer in silence"
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing"
"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air"
"Freedom can occur only through education"
"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases"
"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful"
"Appearance rules the world"
"Votes should be weighed not counted"
"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times"
"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate"
"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh"
"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error"
"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"
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished"
"He who considers too much will perform little"
"Honesty prospers in every condition of life"
"Nothing leads to good that is not natural"
"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change"
"With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain"
"The history of the world is the world's court of justice"
"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators"
"I am better than my reputation"
"To save all we must risk all"
"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason"
"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long"
"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays"
"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor"
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual"
"Every true genius is bound to be naive"
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men"
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom"
"A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast"
"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor"
"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"
"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in"
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety"
"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so"
"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully"
"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe"
"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric"
"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom"
"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him"
"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays"
"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans"
"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine"
"Will it, and set to work briskly"
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance"
"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives"
