Joseph Joubert

The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.

We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their for-tune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die — but asleep!

Let us look for our light in our feelings. There is a warmth in them that contains many clarities.

Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.

All ways of expressing ourselves are good if they make us understood. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good.

He must not cultivate his friends, but cultivate his friendships within himself. They must be kept, cared for, watered.

Animals love the people who talk to them.