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
time real existential
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
pride law punishment
But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.
farewell pride men
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
believe want belief
I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
two people community
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
art philosophy history
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
stills ifs i-can
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
party causes communist
I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
mean political social
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
men rights optimism
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
deeds no-love
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
men creating guilt
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
joy justified existence
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.
believe doe responsible
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.