Joseph Joubert Quotes

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve

Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.

في الفترات المضطربة، لا تكمن الصعوبة في تقديم واجبنا، وإنما في معرفته.

The truth! Only God sees it.

A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."

They do not know how to apply names to things.

Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary.

Reason leads man back to his instincts.

To write his views or his observations, his ideas, but not his judgments. Our judgments limit our views of things. Some enclosures, but no walls. The man who always write his judgments places before his eyes the calpe and abyla. He goes no further and creates a nec plus ultra. Thus, in the study of wisdom, many views and few judgments.

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

The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.