Joseph Joubert Quotes

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

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.