Jean Paul Quotes

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Bücher lesen heißt wandern gehen in ferne Welten, aus den Stuben über die Sterne

Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

Everyone receives his inner sense
of North and South at birth.
Whether an external polarity comes with it
is not terribly important.

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's

Suffering is my gain; I bow
To my Heavenly Father's will,
And receive it hushed and still;
Suffering is my worship now.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Die Nüchternheit des Morgens ist nur eine negative Trunkenheit.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

Kein Autor erdreistet sich, allen Lesern zu schreiben; gleichwohl erkeckt sich jeder Leser, alle Autoren zu lesen.

Дългата надежда е по-сладка от бързия сюрприз.

When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.