Joseph Joubert: Frases em inglês (página 11)

“When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't.”

“A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.”

“From the center we should perceive the circle.”

“Reason does not reason. It goes straight to the fact or the consequence.”

“All ways of expressing ourselves are good if they make us understood. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good.”

“One can advance a long time in life without aging.”

“To descend into ourselves, we must first lift ourselves up.”

“For in spite of ourselves we respect those whom we see respected.”

“To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.”

“Neither in the arts, nor in logic, nor in life should an idea by in any way treated as a thing.”

“Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.”

“Perhaps (and probably) it would be true to say that we cannot conceive of anything except what we can see in our minds.”

“It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.”

“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”

“In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.)”

“All religions = all women.”

“God made life to be lived and not to be known.”

“Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.”

“In order to know men, something must be chanced. Who risks himself of nothing knows nothing.”