The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... — Joseph Joubert Chains that bind Copy Share Image
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — Joseph Joubert Cease Copy Share Image
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. — Joseph Joubert Chastity Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Books Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Controversy Copy Share Image
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. — Joseph Joubert Duty Copy Share Image
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful 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
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead,… — Joseph Joubert Aim Copy Share Image
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. — Joseph Joubert Alive Copy Share Image
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young. — Joseph Joubert Looks Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Abode Copy Share Image
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions. — Joseph Joubert Antiquity Copy Share Image
