Joseph Joubert Quotes

Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.

What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?

To know: it is to see inside oneself.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Think nothing outside their paper.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines.

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

God has commanded time to console the afflicted.

The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties.

Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.

Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.

You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.

I have not seen you since, but you have often appeared to me in my dreams.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.