Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

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

Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

No, men are not born to know, but they are destined for it.

The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it.

What is clear should not be drawn out too much. These useless explanations, these endless examinations are a kind of long whiteness and lead to boredom. It is the uniformity of a wall, of a long piece of laundry.

Once we have tasted the juice of words, our mind can no longer pass them by. We drink thought from them.

One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary.

It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.

In the same way crimes have increased laws, errors have increased explanations.