Joseph Joubert

Objects must be described only in order to describe the feelings they envoke in us.

The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.

Illusion or play. Everything agreeable is in them.

Don't cut what you can untie.

The things we know when not thinking of them.

Let us remember that everything is double.

Close your eyes and you will see.

All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.

The weakness of the dying slanders life.

To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason.

I have not seen you since, but you have often appeared to me in my dreams.

Solitude gives an I. I that gives solitude. It is in our thoughts, and the one the world gives, in our feelings. Because solitude grows accustomed to seeing, to contemplating; and the world, to acting for itself.