Although at this meeting Goethe and Schiller came to no real agreement, the personal relationship formed through it did not break off; both had become aware of the value of each to the other. For Goethe his first meeting with Schiller had the significant result of showing him that ‘thinking about thought’ could be fruitful. For Schiller this significance consisted in his having met in Goethe a human intellect which, simply by its existing properties, invalidated Kant’s philosophy. For him Goethe’s mind became an object of empirical study on which he based the beginnings of a new philosophy free from onlooker-restrictions.