“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”

— Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794, Letter 2

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.”

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

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

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”