“When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't.”Joseph Joubert
“All ways of expressing ourselves are good if they make us understood. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good.”Joseph Joubert
“Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.”Joseph Joubert
“Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.”Joseph Joubert
“Perhaps (and probably) it would be true to say that we cannot conceive of anything except what we can see in our minds.”Joseph Joubert
“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”Joseph Joubert
“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”Joseph Joubert