Explore Quotes by Jean Paul

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

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

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.