Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
order foolish made
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
men evil miracle
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
adventure order achieve
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
sweet lying thinking
I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my throat, it caresses me- and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.
inspirational risk life-is
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
men path jupiter
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
lying mean class
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
justice violence source
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
existentialism destruction appropriate
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
hate generations dry
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
jobs passion thinking
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
space cohesion sculpture
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
inspirational drunk leader
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
savages lucky cost
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.