Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
