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
people personality acting
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
thought-provoking pistols existentialism
Words are loaded pistols.
responsibility destiny men
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
moving light air
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
philosophical judging evil
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
laziness want today
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
want nausea existentialism
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
love judging people
We do not judge the people we love.
heaven my-smile pupils
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
thinking moments my-thoughts
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
thinking names voice
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
atheist philosophical atheism
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
giving-up years games
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
soccer football team
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.