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
dream art truth
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
travel adventure funny-travel
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
failure thinking battle
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
hurt pain agony
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
kissing eggs evil
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
men existentialist anguish
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
decision important
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
inspirational summer difficult
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
birthday philosophy race
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
thinking diaries danger
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
men solitude absence
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
art philosophy responsibility
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
believe order long
So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.