Joseph Joubert: Frases em inglês (página 10)

“I have too much brain for my head. It cannot play comfortably in its box.”

“In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure.”

“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”

“It is impossible for me to say something foolish without being aware of it.”

“Conversation. — Because they have many of those ideas that, to be shown, have need of eyes, gestures, voice, a whole multitude of signs that the written word does not accompany. One sees the soul in operation.”

“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”

“Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths.”

“Undoubtedly, philosophy caused the Revolution. But what caused philosophy? Theological arrogance.”

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

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.”

“Abuse of words, foundation of ideology.”

“Without fixed ideas, no fixed feelings. (Whoever has no constant opinions has no constant emotions.)”

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

“The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.”

“Half myself mocks the other half.”

“Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse.”

“If I weigh myself down, everything is lost.”