Ludwig Klages Quotes

Ludwig Klages was a German philosopher, psychologist and a theoretician in the field of handwriting analysis.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. December 1872 – 29. July 1956
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Famous Ludwig Klages Quotes

“Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.”

Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 280

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

Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 468

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

Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 253

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

Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 466

“Christianity is the war against sleep and dream.”

Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 253

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

The Science of Character (1929), as translated by W. H. Johnston, p. 18

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