God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLogic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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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.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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