There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERTWithout the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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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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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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