“The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“What man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“When the last word is always the one that offers itself first, the work becomes difficult.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“To let the reader complete the symmetry between words and do no more than suggest it.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“People of intelligence often treat business in the way ignorant people treat books: they understand nothing.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“I stop when I see no more light; it is impossible for me to write by feeling my way.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert
“Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines.”Help us translate this quoteJoseph Joubert