Quotes by

Joseph Joubert

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. – Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. – Joseph Joubert

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: thats a good thing born from a bad thing. – Joseph Joubert

Space is the stature of God. – Joseph Joubert

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. – Joseph Joubert

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. – Joseph Joubert

Justice is the truth in action. – Joseph Joubert

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. – Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. – Joseph Joubert

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. – Joseph Joubert

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. – Joseph Joubert

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. – Joseph Joubert

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. – Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. – Joseph Joubert