“Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.”
Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 280
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Famous Ludwig Klages Quotes
“Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.”
Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 468
Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 409, as translated by Joseph Pryce
“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
Sämtliche Werke, vol. 4, p. 408, as translated by Joseph Pryce
“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
