The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Art Copy Share Image
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. — Joseph Joubert Doe Copy Share Image
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a… — Joseph Joubert Character Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Genius Copy Share Image
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. — Joseph Joubert Love Copy Share Image
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. — Joseph Joubert Born Copy Share Image
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. — Joseph Joubert Friendship Copy Share Image
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable — Joseph Joubert Capable Copy Share Image
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it… — Joseph Joubert Able Copy Share Image
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. — Joseph Joubert Finished Copy Share Image
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. — Joseph Joubert Dad Copy Share Image
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? — Joseph Joubert Bird Copy Share Image
