Joseph Joubert Quotes

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.)

Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.

Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered.

Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.

Enseigner, c'est apprendre deux fois

Whoever does not see his friends in a good light loves them little. To see in a good light. — Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Há pessoas que, da moral, só têm um pedaço. É um tecido de que nunca farão um fato.

Courage (in a soldier) is maintained by a certain anger; anger is a little blind and likes to strike out. And from this follows a thousand abuses, a thousand evils and misfortunes that are impossible to predict in an army during war.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.

Everything we can measure seems small.