Quote

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Joseph Joubert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Wither
Whence
Cover
Questions
Philosophy

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
The soul paints itself in our machines.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
Image
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
Joseph Joubert
Image
To see the world is to judge the judges.
Joseph Joubert
Image
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?
Joseph Joubert
Image
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
Joseph Joubert
Image
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Joseph Joubert
Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Joseph Joubert
Image
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert