12 Quotes by Joubert

Fear feeds the imagination.

Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

To know what one must forbid oneself.

To live without a body!

Passions come like a smallpox and disfigure this original beauty.

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.