“What's old collapses, times change, / And new life blossoms in the ruins.”

— Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell, 1803, Act IV, sc. ii

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.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.”

“Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”

“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”

“Progress is / The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”

“The greatest changes in social life are wrought imperceptibly, and are only seen from afar.”