Friedrich Schiller Quotes
He who considers too much will perform little.
Schiller, Friedrich. Wilhelm Tell. Translated by Theodore Martin, H. G. Bohn, 1854, p. 159.
The French culture makes failure painful for individuals as the perception of others is very negative. America, in contrast, is much more forgiving about failure with people getting second and third chances commonly. Failure is necessary for great success in almost everything significant in that no one can be perfect and success often depends on resiliency to failure along the way.
Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed 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 short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.
