Quotes By Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Children need models rather than critics.

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Justice is the truth in action.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

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

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Never cut what you can untie.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

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

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Ask the young. They know everything.

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

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

Space is the stature of God.