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
honesty integrity character
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
way existentialism wonder
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
simple sometimes truth-is
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
love children men
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
summer june lovely
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
philosophical soul needs
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
thinking self facts
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
inspirational life philosophical
Life begins on the other side of despair.
philosophical book i-have-learned
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
men choices matter
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
solitude littles purity
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
fighting evil tempted
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
philosophical literature trouble
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
life giving up-to-you
It is up to you to give life a meaning.