Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert 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
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — 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 Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — 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
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
