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Jean Paul

Date de naissance: 21. mars 1763
Date de décès: 14. novembre 1825

Johann Paul Friedrich Richter , mieux connu sous le pseudonyme de Jean Paul, est un écrivain allemand.

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Citations Jean Paul

„The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.“

— Jean Paul
P. 368.

„The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.“

— Jean Paul
P. 313.

„The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.“

— Jean Paul
P. 416.

„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.“

— Jean Paul
Jean-Paul Richter, Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education https://archive.org/details/levanaordoctrine02jean 1807 1865 translation p. 1

„The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.“

— Jean Paul
As quoted in Treasury of Thought (1872) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 521

„No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.“

— Jean Paul
P. 19.

„The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.“

— Jean Paul
P. 59.

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

— Jean Paul
P. 568.

„How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!“

— Jean Paul
P. 597.

„Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.“

— Jean Paul
P. 620.

„When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.“

— Jean Paul
P. 238.

„The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.“

— Jean Paul
P. 105.

„Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.“

— Jean Paul
Titan (1800-3)

„Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?“

— Jean Paul
P. 556.

„Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.“

— Jean Paul
Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie http://books.google.ca/books?id=UMwMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&hl=en, Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, 1816

„The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.“

— Jean Paul
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 366.

Jean Paul citations

Jean Paul

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Citations Jean Paul

„The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.“

„The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.“

„The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.“

„The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.“

„No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.“

„The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.“

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

„How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!“

„Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.“

„When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.“

„The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.“

„Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.“

„Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?“

„Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.“

„The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.“

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