Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
Joseph Joubert
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Free
Opinions
Keep
Corners
May
Room
Heart
Rooms
Make
Head
Always
Opinion
Hospitality
Open
Corner
Friends
Heads
More quotes by Joseph Joubert
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Joseph Joubert
One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Joseph Joubert
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Joseph Joubert
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
Joseph Joubert
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Joseph Joubert
Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.
Joseph Joubert
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
The soul paints itself in our machines.
Joseph Joubert
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
Joseph Joubert
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Joseph Joubert
Living requires but little life doing requires much.
Joseph Joubert
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph Joubert
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joseph Joubert
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
Joseph Joubert