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Speak for the ear and write for the memory.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
There is nothing perfectly true for man; I mean in human opinions. Just like there is nothing perfectly round.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
There are many situations in life that we suddenly feel we have seen in dreams.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
These thoughts form not only the foundation of my work, but of my life.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
The people. They know how to know, but not how to choose.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Illusion or play. Everything agreeable is in them.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)