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
basketball mouths action
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
sunflower sun
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
friendship real hate
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
time moon hair
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
heart animal hair
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
inspirational angel sight
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
god soul literature
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
funny music night
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
age grief tears youth
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
child educated immediate opposition remote
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
assumed cannot choose choosing constitute disability fact means necessary obstacle revealed suffer surpass
Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all').
choice condemned free
I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
abandoned alone bear compelled engaged except foundation responsibility suddenly takes tear therefore whatever
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
leg women
(But) for women, you put it on as a dress, so you have to put your leg in it. That's it, ... And the zipper on the back and that's it.