Joseph Joubert Quotes

» Children need models rather than critics.

» It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

» Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

» Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

» You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

» To teach is to learn twice.

» He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

» Innocence is always unsuspicious.

» Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

» The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

» When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

» Imagination is the eye of the soul.

» Justice is the truth in action.

» The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

» Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

» One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

» The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

» There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

» Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

» Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

» How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

» A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

» Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

» Politeness is the flower of humanity.

» Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

» The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

» Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

» Ask the young. They know everything.

» The passions of the young are vices in the old.

» All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

» Space is to place as eternity is to time.

» Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

» It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

» Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

» God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

» The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

» Never cut what you can untie.

» Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

» You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

» Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

» Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

» We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

» Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

» Space is the stature of God.

» Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

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