Joseph Joubert
Quotes
...burdened with the unbearable weight of ourselves.
When we speak, we write what we are saying in the air.
An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts.
When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.
My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.
Someone said of an asthmatic who was being very sweet and patient in his suffering: "One would like to breathe for him."
Fear feeds the imagination.
We are all old children, more or less serious, more or less filled with ourselves.
They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.
In the same way crimes have increased laws, errors have increased explanations.
Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.
All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.
