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
stupidity choices enough
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
What is not possible is not to choose.
imagine
Because we can imagine, we are free.
water slipping depth
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.
truth opposites stories
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
real men play
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
party mean power
What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.
past able alienation
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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.