Joseph Joubert
Quotes
Half myself mocks the other half.
Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it.
And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.
In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.
There is nothing perfectly true for man; I mean in human opinions. Just like there is nothing perfectly round.
Everything we can measure seems small.
Speak for the ear and write for the memory.
A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.
Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.
A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.
