Quote

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

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
Heaven
Virtues
Religion
Walk
Mother
Duty
Country
Walks
Must
Loved
Kind
Taught
Nourished
Virtue
Nursing
Path
Showed

More quotes by Joseph Joubert

Image
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
Joseph Joubert
Image
Slander is the solace of malignity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
Joseph Joubert
Image
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Joseph Joubert
Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
Joseph Joubert
Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
Image
You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
Image
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
Joseph Joubert
Image
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
Joseph Joubert
Image
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
Joseph Joubert