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Friedrich Schiller
said
Votes should be weighed, not counted. Sooner or later, the state will be wreckedIn which majority rules, and ignorance decides.
— Demetrius (1804-1805)
Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
- Fame84.8
- Momentum12.0
- Global rank#250
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Schiller turned medicine into drama, then turned drama into one of the pillars of German literature — a playwright and poet whose seventeen-year friendship with Goethe launched an entire aesthetic movement.
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Born in Marbach in 1759 to a devoutly Protestant family and initially groomed for the priesthood, Schiller was steered into a military academy in Stuttgart in 1773 where he ended up studying medicine instead. His first play, The Robbers, written during those academy years, proved a breakout success. After a short run as a regimental doctor he left Stuttgart and eventually settled in Weimar, where in 1789 he became professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Jena and began producing historical works. In 1788 he struck up a productive, complicated friendship with Johann Wolfgang von…
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Friedrich Schiller
said
What the inner voice saysWill not disappoint the hoping soul.
— Hope, last stanza (1797)
Friedrich Schiller
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There are three lessons I would write, — Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal lightUpon the hearts of men. Have Hope.
— Hope, Faith, and Love (c. 1786); also known as "The Words of Strength", as translated in The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) edited by
Friedrich Schiller
said
What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.
— Resignation (1786)
Friedrich Schiller
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The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
— Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)
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Momentum12.0
Historical26.1
Now attention41.5
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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