Joseph Joubert idézet

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„A szép műveket a tehetség kezdi meg, de csakis a munka fejezi be.”

„Azok, akik soha nem vonják vissza véleményüket, jobban szeretik önmagukat, mint az igazságot.”

„Az igazsághoz a költészeten át érkeztem, a költészethez az igazságon át.”

„Amikor kész a mondatod, gondosan csiszold le sarkait és sajátos öntőformád többi nyomát. Le kell kerekítened, hogy könnyebben férkőzhessen be mások elméjébe és emlékezetébe.”

„Ha nem tudod, melyik az igazabb két nézet közül, válaszd a becsületesebbet.”

„Feleségnek csak azt a nőt válaszd, akit, ha férfi volna, barátnak választanál.”

„A homályos szó némelykor jobb a szabatos kifejezésnél.”

„Egy kellemes benyomás, ha rövid: gyönyör, ha hosszú: kéj, ha állandó: elégedettség.”

„Mindig elveszítjük azoknak a barátságát, akik elvesztették megbecsülésünket.”

„Az illúzió szerves része a valóságnak, oly szorosan hozzátartozik, mint az okozat az okhoz.”

“It is impossible to love the same person twice.”

“Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.”

“Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it.”

“My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.”

“To know: it is to see inside oneself.”

“Available. A thought is perfect only when it is perfectly available, that is to say when one can place it and detach it at will.”

“For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.”

“To seek the truth. But, as you are seeking and as you are waiting, what will you do, what will you think, what will you practice, what rules will you follow?”

“Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.”

“Madness is an illness of the brain, not of the mind.”

“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.”