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
spring flower angel
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.
monotony superiors variety
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
kings power deeds
The look of a king is itself a deed.
gratitude joy sorrow
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
love-is hands band
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.
faults chiefs humankind
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
future soul ill
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
dance running exercise
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
distance sorrow black
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
german-language language organs
The German language is the organ among the languages.
wine men age
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
poverty literature loved-ones
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
eccentricity
My eccentricity became direction.
kind
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.