Joseph Joubert: Frases em inglês

“What is clear should not be drawn out too much. These useless explanations, these endless examinations are a kind of long whiteness and lead to boredom. It is the uniformity of a wall, of a long piece of laundry.”

“Let's go; and follow your mistake.”

“Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.”

“During our youth, there is something in us that is better than ourselves, I mean better than our desires, our pleasures, our yieldings, and our inclinations. Our soul is good then, even though our intelligence and will are not.”

“Let us look for our light in our feelings. There is a warmth in them that contains many clarities.”

“Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.”

“We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

“One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.”

“We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.”

“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.”

“Don't cut what you can untie.”

“Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”

“It is not light that burns, that purifies, that consumes, that divides, and that recomposes; it is fire. And this fire we are talking about always follows light.”

“Animals love the people who talk to them.”

“He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.”

“Those who have judgment use it as much as in judging stones as in judging men.”

“Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.”

“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.”

“Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up.”