# Quote — Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man

> Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

- Author: [Friedrich Schiller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/friedrich-schiller.md)
- Book: [On the Aesthetic Education of Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/friedrich-schiller/on-the-aesthetic-education-of-man.md)
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## More from this book

> Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.

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> No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

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> Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

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