“I have too much brain for my head. It cannot play comfortably in its box.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“It is impossible for me to say something foolish without being aware of it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Conversation. — Because they have many of those ideas that, to be shown, have need of eyes, gestures, voice, a whole multitude of signs that the written word does not accompany. One sees the soul in operation.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Undoubtedly, philosophy caused the Revolution. But what caused philosophy? Theological arrogance.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Objects must be described only in order to describe the feelings they envoke in us.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert