Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
Friedrich SchillerI speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
Friedrich Schiller