Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
JOSEPH JOUBERTPleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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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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Children need models rather than critics.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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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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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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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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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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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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