We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Assured Copy Share Image
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. — Joseph Joubert Creating beauty Copy Share Image
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness… — Joseph Joubert Death Copy Share Image
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard. — Joseph Joubert Strikes Copy Share Image
“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Ideas Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Book Copy Share Image
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert Aim Copy Share Image
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate. — Joseph Joubert Able Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Adults Copy Share Image
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Charm Copy Share Image
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert Bird Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Composition Copy Share Image
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. — Joseph Joubert Anticipation Copy Share Image
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to… — Joseph Joubert Bounds Copy Share Image
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Fingers Copy Share Image
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert Instruments Copy Share Image
