Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert Letter writing Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert Antiquity Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. — Joseph Joubert Enters Copy Share Image
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to… — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? — Joseph Joubert Bird Copy Share Image
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Funny Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. — Joseph Joubert Friendship Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Controversy Copy Share Image
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Arguments Copy Share Image
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
