We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Age Copy Share Image
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert Blessing Copy Share Image
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them. — Joseph Joubert Beautiful Copy Share Image
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. — Joseph Joubert Delight Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our… — Joseph Joubert Heaven Copy Share Image
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that… — Joseph Joubert Beautiful 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
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert Argument Copy Share Image
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed… — Joseph Joubert 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 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 Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert 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 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
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How… — Joseph Joubert Abstract 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
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
