All Joseph Joubert Quotes
- A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. Added
- Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Calculation
- Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features Ability
- What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. Always True
- If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. Blessing
- Justice is the truth in action. Action
- God is the place where I do not remember the rest. Funny
- The paper is patient, but the reader is not. Inspirational
- It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 Ideas
- Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.... Audience
- Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.... Bind
- Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. Abuse
- You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. Along
- The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry Bible
- Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. Agriculture
- Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. Genius
- TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. Friends
- Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. Carry
- How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. Abstract
- Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes Letter Writing