It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERTPleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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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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Space is the stature of God.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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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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