All Joseph Joubert Quotes
- To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap. Argue
- What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
- Without duty, life is soft and boneless. Boneless
- Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. Excellence
- He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. Friends
- Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. Cry
- I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… Banish
- There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. Excellent
- It is always our inabilities that vex us. Ability
- In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to… Able
- We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. Book
- The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from? Bird
- We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. Constrain
- Heaven is for those who think of it. Heaven
- Justice is the right of the weakest. Funny
- Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. Beautiful
- Our life is woven wind. Life
- We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. Love
- One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. Choose
- The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. Drives