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
laughs laughter profoundly sad
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
gathered idleness miseries
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
dancing develop exercise exercises muscles powers single
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
except rest worth
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
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.
french-philosopher illusion life loose meaning moment
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
books-and-reading call interested might phone send somebody
If there is somebody we're interested in we might place a phone call and send them a look book.
confuse dreamers truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
collection women
I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all sportswear. But it's very much like daytime, but elegant.
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').
character clearly man
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
war believe taken
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.
heart men devouring
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
wise character people
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.