Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Quotes by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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Romantic writer · German · 1763–1825

German Romantic writer (1763–1825)

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“Fine minds are seldom fine souls.”

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

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”

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

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

“The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”

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“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
music power-of-music

“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; "...”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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“Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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“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
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“Fine minds are seldom fine souls.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
forgiveness

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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“The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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“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
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