It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
JOSEPH JOUBERTOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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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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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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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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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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