281 quotes
Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Those who have judgment use it as much as in judging stones as in judging men.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Little people have few passions, they hardly have anything but needs.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
When men are imbeciles, the one who is mad dominates the others.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
No, men are not born to know, but they are destined for it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)