Joseph Joubert
Quotes
What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!
Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.
A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.
What we say is similar to what we are.
The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.
I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.
Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.
One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.
Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself.
One ruins the mind with too much writing. — One rusts it by not writing at all.
It seems there is something spiritual in wine.
What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
