“I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.”

— Friedrich Schiller, Piccolomini, Act 5, Scene 1 (translation)

About Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805

German poet, playwright and philosopher, author of "The Robbers" and "Ode to Joy".

“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.”

“All men become brothers where thy happy wing-beats are.”

“To save all we must risk all.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”