Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Funny Copy Share Image
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert Abstract Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert Direction Copy Share Image
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Beauty Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Amenities Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Essence Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Accomplish Copy Share Image
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to… — Joseph Joubert Children Copy Share Image
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves… — Joseph Joubert Action Copy Share Image
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by… — Joseph Joubert Attention Copy Share Image
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Air 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… — Joseph Joubert Crosses Copy Share Image
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing… — Joseph Joubert Air Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Appreciate Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. — Joseph Joubert Can do Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert All time Copy Share Image
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. — Joseph Joubert Common Copy Share Image
What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself. — Joseph Joubert Add Copy Share Image
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Poetry Copy Share Image
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert Acted Copy Share Image
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it. — Joseph Joubert Aspect Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Deserve Copy Share Image
