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
responsibility might existentialism
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
sex character endeavor
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
assassins poor good-journalism
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
ifs
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
vegetables soul carrots
You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
writing portraits myth
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
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.