Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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.
Schiller, Friedrich. On the Aesthetic Education of Man. Translated by Reginald Snell, Yale University Press, 1954, p. 80.
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.
