“Everything purposeful is meaningless, and everything meaningful is purposeless.”
Source: Rhythmen und Runen (1944), p. 280
Ludwig Klages de son nom complet Friedrich Konrad Eduard Wilhelm Ludwig Klages, né le 10 décembre 1872 à Hanovre, mort le 29 juillet 1956 à Kilchberg, est un philosophe de la nature et de la vie allemand, un psychologue et le fondateur de la graphologie psychologique scientifique. Wikipedia
“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
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
“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