Jean Paul quotes

" Everything has been figured out, except how to live. " # Life and Living

" No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. " # Rest

" To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. " # Belief

" For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. " # Facts

" Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. " # Joy # Sorrow # Danger

" One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. " # Ideas

" Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. " # Love

" I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. " # Virtue # Tears # Fathers and Sons

" Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s. " # Variety # Pleasure # Uniforms

" A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. " # Writers and Writing # Literature # Marriage