Ludwig Klages Quotes

1872–1956 Germany

Friedrich Konrad Eduard Wilhelm Ludwig Klages (10 December 1872 – 29 July 1956) was a German philosopher, psychologist, graphologist, poet, writer, and lecturer, who was a two-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Random Ludwig Klages quote

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A man who cannot climb a tree will boast of never having fallen out of one.

Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

The profundity of truth varies with the seeing power of the spirit which seeks it.

The Science of Character (1929)

Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.

Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.

Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

Christianity is the war against sleep and dream.

Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.

Rhythmen und Runen (1944)

For the modern psychologist, … industry has remained as the only virtue—with its satellites, ambition and success—a conception of virtue which the Ancients would never have hesitated to relegate to the lowest of men, to pariahs and to slaves.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ludwig Klages (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.