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
fire people farce
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
inevitable
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
long atheism gone
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
life thinking generosity
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
artist color quality
For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.
philosophical weakness reason
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
selfish men unjust
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
reflection ideas pairs
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
two people leader
There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
powerful commitment silence
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.
thinking rooms chaos
When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.
victory deep-thought details
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
crush wall men
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
sake authenticity ifs
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.