I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one… — 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
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. — 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 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
