The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERTThere was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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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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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.
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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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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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