Johann Friedrich von SchillerThinkers

Art is an autonomously functioning genre which transforms humanity in order to make freedom possible.

Beauty is a thing which you have never seen at all if you have never seen it in a moment of suffering.

Beauty is for the feeling heart while truth is for the wise.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Family is not biological. It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

The Historian is a prophet with his face turned backward.

Jealousy is a Magnifier of trifles.

Love can son the realms of night.

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.