Top 90 Jean Paul Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

— Jean Paul

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2. “You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.”

— Jean Paul

3. “Repetition is the mother of education.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

5. “Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”

— Jean Paul

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6. “The German language is the organ among the languages.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

8. “Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”

— Jean Paul

9. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”

— Jean Paul

10. “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

— Jean Paul

11. “Paradise is always where love dwells.”

— Jean Paul

12. “Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”

— Jean Paul

13. “The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”

— Jean Paul

14. “In women everything is heart, even the head.”

— Jean Paul

15. “Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.”

— Jean Paul

16. “People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.”

— Jean Paul

17. “Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”

— Jean Paul

18. “The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.”

— Jean Paul

19. “Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.”

— Jean Paul

20. “Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.”

— Jean Paul

21. “Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.”

— Jean Paul

22. “The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.”

— Jean Paul

23. “Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.”

— Jean Paul

24. “A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.”

— Jean Paul

25. “Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.”

— Jean Paul

26. “Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?”

— Jean Paul

27. “For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”

— Jean Paul

28. “Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”

— Jean Paul

29. “Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

31. “We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”

— Jean Paul

32. “Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

34. “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.”

— Jean Paul

35. “Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.”

— Jean Paul

36. “Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages.”

— Jean Paul

37. “God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”

— Jean Paul

38. “The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.”

— Jean Paul

39. “Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”

— Jean Paul

40. “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.”

— Jean Paul

41. “Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

43. “The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.”

— Jean Paul

44. “The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

46. “Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”

— Jean Paul

47. “The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul

49. “A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”

— Jean Paul

50. “A scholar knows no boredom.”

— Jean Paul