Quotes by Moral Philosophers

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Joseph Joubert
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Joseph Joubert
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Joseph Joubert
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Joseph Joubert
Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Without duty life is soft and bone less.
Joseph Joubert
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
Joseph Joubert
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Joseph Joubert
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Joseph Joubert
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Joubert
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Joseph Joubert
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
Joseph Joubert
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
The breath of the mind is attention 128
Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Joseph Joubert
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Joseph Joubert
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. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.
Joseph Joubert
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
Joseph Joubert
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is the repose of passion.
Joseph Joubert
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Joseph Joubert
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
Joseph Joubert
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Everything has its poetry. 94
Joseph Joubert