Jean Paul Quotes
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.
He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.
The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
