There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLogic works, metaphysics contemplates.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Never cut what you can untie.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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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.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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