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It is impossible for me to say something foolish without being aware of it.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
There is an infinity of things one does well only through necessity.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.)
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)