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.
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.
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.
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.
paris revolution french-revolution
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
selfish knives people
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.
wise taken reflection
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake...
appears defines existence himself man means meant precedes saying thrust toward turns wills
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
kissing eggs evil
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
philosophical meaning-of-life
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.