Joseph Joubert quotes

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

— Joseph Joubert

“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Space is the stature of God.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Space is to place as eternity is to time.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”

— Joseph Joubert

“The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.”

— Joseph Joubert

“There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.”

— Joseph Joubert

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

— Joseph Joubert

“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”

— Joseph Joubert

“The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.”

— Joseph Joubert