401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

The breath of the mind is attention 128.

The idea of the nest in the bird’s mind, where does it come from?

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another...

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that’s a good thing born from a bad thing.

Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, – that is the secret of the fine arts.

Never cut what can be united.

What astonishes astonishes once, but what is admirable is more and more admired.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.