Joseph Joubert: Trending quotes (page 3)

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”

“The soul speaks to itself in parables.”

“There are many situations in life that we suddenly feel we have seen in dreams.”

“Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.”

“It is above all the language for expressing these truths that have not yet been found.”

“It seems there is something spiritual in wine.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

“Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.”

“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”

“Never the mind without the soul.”

“What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!”

“God has commanded time to console the afflicted.”

“They cannot accustom themselves to lacking nothing.”

“My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.”

“Glory. Lovelier to desire than to possess.”

“My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all.”

“They speak to the ear. I want to speak to the memory.”

“Tacitus. And all those words that are obscure only once.”

“When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.”