Jean Paul quotes - Page : 6

" Monsieur ... I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. " # Science and Scientists # Concentration # Belief

" I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail. " # Dogs # Love # Life and Living

" As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. " # Truth

" I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. " # Memory # Past # Writers and Writing

" The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. " # Nature

" The past is the luxury of proprietors. " # Animals # Past # Luxury

" Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources? " # Time and Time Management

" For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions. " # Age and Aging # Death and Dying # Music

" All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. " # Books - Reading # Learning # Life and Living

" Absurd, irreducible; nothing—not even a profound and secret delirium of nature—could explain [a tree root]. " # Arts and Artists # Love # Secrets