Joseph Joubert
Quotes
Glory. Lovelier to desire than to possess.
For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.
If I weigh myself down, everything is lost.
The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.
They do not know how to apply names to things.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms; or, if you like, it blossoms from the word that presents it and clothes it.
To know: it is to see inside oneself.
The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.
To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say to others what we do not think. Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body, and soul.
It is very difficult to be wise (through the mind); it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice.
Perhaps (and probably) it would be true to say that we cannot conceive of anything except what we can see in our minds.
Adventurous minds, which wait for and receive their ideas only from chance.
