Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTAll are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
-
-
Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
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.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
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.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
To teach is to learn twice.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERT -
Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERT