Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Friedrich Schiller was a German philosopher, poet, and playwright, the close collaborator of Goethe at Weimar and one of the most important Kantian thinkers of his generation. His Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man argues that aesthetic experience is the only form of human activity in which the demands of reason and the demands of sense are reconciled, and that the cultivation of beauty is therefore the precondition of political freedom. The quotes below are attributed to Friedrich Schiller, organized by topic.