Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) was a German poet, playwright and historian, and with Goethe the central figure of Weimar Classicism. He trained as a military doctor and deserted the service in order to write. His Ode to Joy was later set to music in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
About this theme: Dreams
The word dreams carries two meanings here that are rarely separated: what we dream at night and what we aim at. Older cultures did not draw a firm line between them — dreams were read as messages and aspirations as a summons. Only more recent usage splits the two, and gives nearly all the weight to the second.
More by Friedrich Schiller
- Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
- The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
- He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
- Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
More on Dreams
- In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.— Mark Twain
- The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.— Friedrich Nietzsche
- Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.— Theodore Roosevelt
- The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result; his duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.— Nikola Tesla