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
love-you important answers
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.
giving generosity facts
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
men nausea doe
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
judging judgement define-you
your judgement judges you and defines you
suicide men attention
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
opposites ideas want
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
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.