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Friedrich Schiller
Author · Journalist · 1759–1805
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About Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher, and historian whose dramas include *The Robbers*, *Maria Stuart*, and the *Wallenstein* trilogy. As professor of history at the University of Jena, he also developed influential writings on aesthetics and philosophy. His literary partnership and friendship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe helped define Weimar Classicism.
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Read quote → ✓Source verified“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.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”
Read quote → ✓Source verified“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”