401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one’s soul.

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!

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place to spend one’s leisure.

Es preciso que exista algo sagrado.

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them, – defects which it is well not to correct.

Everything has its poetry. 94.