Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Quotes & Sayings

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe! — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

A man," answered Vult, "must have some chosen one, to whom, when he has involved all others in vapor and fog, he can open his breastplate, and the breast itself, and say, look in! — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

...when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Fine minds are seldom fine souls. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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 reflection. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Thus our actual path in life, as well as the course of our ideas, is often indicated by accident; the continuance only, and establishment of the one or the other, is dependent on our free will. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Paradise is always where love dwells. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Rough and dark is often the veil of the soul, while within, so pure and transparent. Like the grey crust upon ice, that, when severed, reveals within a pure blue light, like the transparent ether. Thus remain veiled to the stranger, but be not concealed from thyself. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter