“There is no trace of the delicate relationship (chemische verwandtschaft) through which they (his characters) attract and repel, neutralize each other, separate again and re-establish themselves.”

See main: Freud-Schiller drive theory

"The animal drives [Triebe] awaken and develop the spiritual drives"; he opposed the material drive (Stofftrieb) to the form drive (Formtrieb). The Spieltrieb (play-drive)—which expresses play, the beautiful, freedom, and the total man—is posited as an ideal nexus between the two Triebe. It is also the force that drives creation: "It is union of the unconscious and reflection that makes the poetic artist."

The World Ways (Die Weltweisen)
German	English
Der Satz, durch welchen alles Ding Bestand und Form empfangen, Der Nagel, woran Zeus den Ring Der Welt, die sonst in Scherben ging, Vorsichtig aufgehangen, Den nenn' ich einen großen Geist, Der mir ergründet, wie er heißt, Wenn ich ihm nicht drauf helfe – Er heißt: Zehn ist nicht Zwölfe. Der Schnee macht kalt, das Feuer brennt, Der Mensch geht auf zwei Füßen, Die Sonne scheint am Firmament, Das kann, wer auch nicht Logik kennt, Durch seine Sinne wissen. Doch wer Metaphysik studiert, Der weiß, daß, wer verbrennt, nicht friert, Weiß, daß das Nasse feuchtet Und daß das Helle leuchtet. Homerus singt sein Hochgedicht, Der Held besteht Gefahren; Der brave Mann thut seine Pflicht Und that sie, ich verhehl' es nicht, Eh noch Weltweise waren. Doch hat Genie und Herz vollbracht, Was Lock' und Des Cartes nie gedacht, Sogleich wird auch von diesen Die Möglichkeit bewiesen. Im Leben gilt der Stärke Recht, Dem Schwachen trotzt der Kühne, Wer nicht gebieten kann, ist Knecht; Sonst geht es ganz erträglich schlecht Auf dieser Erdenbühne. Doch wie es wäre, fing' der Plan Der Welt nur erst von vornen an, Ist in Moralsystemen Ausführlich zu vernehmen. »Der Mensch bedarf des Menschen sehr Zu seinem großen Ziele; Nur in dem Ganzen wirket er, Viel Tropfen geben erst das Meer, Viel Wasser treibt die Mühle. Drum flieht der wilden Wölfe Stand Und knüpft des Staates dauernd Band.« So lehren vom Katheder Herr Puffendorf und Feder. Doch weil, was ein Professor spricht, Nicht gleich zu Allen dringet, So übt Natur die Mutterpflicht Und sorgt, daß nie die Kette bricht Und daß der Reif nie springet. Einstweilen, bis den Bau der Welt Philosophie zusammenhält, Erhält sie das Getriebe Durch Hunger und durch Liebe.	The rate by which all things Receive inventory and shape, The nail what the Zeus ring The world went to pieces otherwise, Carefully hung, To what I call a great spirit, The fathomed me how he is, When I told him it does not help - He says: Ten is not twelve. The snow makes cold, the fire burns, The man walks on two feet, The sun is shining in the firmament, This can, who knows neither logic Know through his senses. But who studied metaphysics, He knows that he who burns not freeze, Knows that the Wet moistens And that the bright lights. Homer sings his wedding poem, The hero is danger; A good man does his duty And she did, I do not conceal, Eh were world way. But genius and heart has accomplished, What Lock 'and Des Cartes never thought Immediately is also of this The opportunity proved. In life, the strength is right The weak defies the Bold If you can not command, is servant; Otherwise it's quite tolerable bad On this earth stage. But what it would be caught 'the plan The world first only by vornen to, In moral systems Detail to be heard. "Man needs of the people very To his great aims; Only in the whole he worketh, Many drops to give only the sea, Plenty of water drives the mill. Drum escapes of wild wolves as Ties and the state band permanently. " To teach from the lectern Mr. Puffendorf and spring. But because of what a professor says, Penetrateth not equal to all, Mother Nature exerts the required And ensures that the chain never breaks And that the frost never Springet. In the meantime, until the construction of the world Philosophy holds, It receives the transmission By hunger and by love.	In 1823, French engineer Sadi Carnot, famously stated that the “fall of caloric”, from the hot body (boiler) to the cold body (condenser), through the working substance in the operation of the steam engine, is comparable, in principle, to the “fall of water”, from the higher location, through the rotary mechanism of the water mill, to the lower location, in the machines operated by falling water, in the production of motive power. A water mill driven by waterpower, according to which the fall of the water "drives" the mechanical operation of the mill, which is to grind grain. In 1930, Sigmund Freud that he got his free energy/bound energy libido "drive theory", in start, from Schiller's "The World Ways" poem, which Freud encapsulates as: "hunger and love are what move the world"

“Hunger and love are what moves the world.”

— Friedrich Schiller (1795), quoted by Sigmund Freud, in Civilization and its Discontents (1930) (Ѻ), as basis if his drive theory (Ѻ)

“Hunger and love are two fundamental forces that reign in the living world, they are the primary source of all phenomena, mental and social.”

— Leon Winiarski (1899), Essay on Social Mechanics

“Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1920)

“Love and hunger rule the world.”

— Friedrich Schiller (1795), “The Philosophers” (Die Welteisen) (Ѻ); StatusMind.com (Ѻ)

“Throughout his life Einstein was a man of the book, to a much higher degree than other scientists. The remarkably diverse collection of volumes in his library grew constantly. If we look only at the German-language books published before 1910 that survived Einstein’s Princeton household, the list includes much of the cannon of the time: Boltzmann, Buchner, Friedrich Hebbel, the works of Heine in two editions, Helmholtz, von Humboldt, the many books of Kant, Gotthold Lessing, Mach, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. But what looms largest are the collected works of Johann von Goethe in a thirty-six volume edition and another of twelve volumes, plus two volumes on his Optics, the exchange of letters between Goethe and Schiller, and a separate volume of Faust.”

“How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”

— Friedrich Schiller (c.1790), Ranker.com (Ѻ)

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

— Friedrich Schiller (c.1790), Ranker.com (Ѻ)

“The relationship of gravity to the living power of the bird is about the same as inclination is related to law-giving reason.”

— Friedrich Schiller (c.1790) (Ѻ)

“I do not ignore the advantages which the present generation, regarded as a whole, and measured by reason, may boast over what was best in the bygone world; but it must enter the contest as a compact phalanx and measure itself as whole against whole. What individual modern could enter the lists, man against man, and contest the prize of manhood with an individual Athenian? When then arises this unfavorable individual comparison in the face of ever advantage from the standpoint of the race?”

— Friedrich Schiller (1795), Publication; cited by Carl Jung (1924) in Psychological Types (pg. 91); cited by Roderick Seidenberg (1950) in Post-Historic Man (pg. 191)