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
mean self dry
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
eternity my-time
...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...
thinking tranquility life-death
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
order criticism language
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
thinking moustache
I do not think therefore I am a moustache
death existentialism continuation
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
thinking ideas challenges
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.
left
Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?
philosophical science technology
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
mean men essence
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
born dies meaningless
It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
military philosophical numbers
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
sky silence solitude
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
giving up-to-you life-has-no-meaning
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.