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
music hands giving
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.
judgement may existence
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
imagine
Because we can imagine, we are free.
powerful inspire powerful-god
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
mirrors wonder feels
When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.
running men running-away
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
ideas giving photograph
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
attitude philosophy views
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.
dog moving men
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
philosophy doe helping
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.
humility institutions refuse
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
human-nature introspection
Introspection is always retrospection
two people community
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
stills ifs i-can
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.