Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERTHow many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Never cut what you can untie.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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Ask the young. They know everything.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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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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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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