Joseph Joubert
Quotes
In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure.
Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.
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.
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.
All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.
All beautiful words are susceptible to more than one meaning (or signification).
Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.
