Joseph Joubert Quotes

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

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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!

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert may 16 2002

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

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Power makes you attractive; it even makes women love old men.

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

Es preciso que exista algo sagrado