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.
JOSEPH JOUBERTIt is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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To teach is to learn twice.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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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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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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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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