Famous Quotes / Joseph Joubert
73 Quotations by Joseph Joubert
- 61. We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
- 62. We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched ...
- 63. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
- 64. What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
- 65. When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
- 66. Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
- 67. Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
- 68. Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
- 69. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
- 70. Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
- 71. Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
- 72. You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being diss ...
- 73. You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.