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
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.
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.