Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTSpace is the stature of God.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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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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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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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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