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Joseph Joubert
May 7, 1754 - May 4, 1824
Nationality: French
Category: Writer
Subcategory: French Writer

Ask the young. They know everything.

   

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

   

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

   

To teach is to learn twice.

   

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

   

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

   

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

   

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

   

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

   

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

   

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

   

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

   

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

   

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

   

Never cut what you can untie.

   

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

   

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

   

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

   

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

   

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

   

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