It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThe 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.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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