Frases de Joseph Joubert

“El que tiene imaginación sin erudición, es como el que tiene alas y no tiene pies.”

“Enseñar es aprender dos veces.”

“El mayor defecto de los libros nuevos es que nos impiden leer los libros viejos.”

“Al educar a un niño se debe pensar en su vejez.”

“Cuando mis amigos son tuertos, los miro de perfil.”

“Un hombre sin defectos es un tonto o un hipócrita del que debemos desconfiar.”

“El placer no es sino la felicidad de una parte del cuerpo.”

“La justicia es la verdad en acción.”

“Una máxima es la expresión exacta y noble de una verdad importante e incontestable. Las buenas máximas son los gérmenes de todo bien; fuertemente gravadas en la memoria, nutren la voluntad.”

“A veces los pensamientos nos consuelan de las cosas, y los libros de las personas.”

“Antes de utilizar una bella palabra, hacedle sitio.”

“Aquel que tiene imaginación, pero carece de conocimientos, tiene alas, pero no tiene pies.”

“Cierra los ojos y verás.”

“Con el genio se inician las grandes obras, pero sólo con el trabajo se les acaban.”

“El dinero es un estiércol estupendo como abono, lo malo es que muchos lo toman por la cosecha.”

“El teatro debe divertir, noblemente, pero nada más que divertir. Pretender hacer de él una escuela de moral es corromper a la vez la moral y el arte.”

“Hay un derecho del más sabio, pero no del más fuerte.”

“La imaginación es el ojo del alma.”

“La música, en los momentos de peligro, eleva los sentimientos.”

“La prudencia es la fuerza de los débiles.”

“La ternura es el reposo de la pasión.”

“Las mujeres creen inocente todo cuando pretenden.”

“Las revoluciones son tiempos en que el pobre no está seguro de su honradez, ni el rico de su fortuna, ni el inocente de su vida.”

“Lo que sorprende, sorprende una vez, pero lo que es admirable lo es más cuanto más se admira.”

“Toda nuestra vida la empleamos en ocuparnos de los demás; una mitad para amarlos y la otra mitad para hablar mal de ellos.”

“Todo se aprende, hasta la virtud.”

“Unos gustan decir lo que saben; otros lo que piensan.”

“Yo tengo muy reducida esa parte de la cabeza destinada a recibir las cosas que no están claras.”

“Es mejor debatir una cuestión sin llegar a concluirla, que llegar a una conclusión sin debatirla”

“Los niños necesitan más modelos que críticos.”

“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.”

“To draw up in advance an exact and detailed plan is to deprive our minds of the pleasures of the encounter and the novelty that comes from executing the work.”

“I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”

“Solitude gives an I. I that gives solitude. It is in our thoughts, and the one the world gives, in our feelings. Because solitude grows accustomed to seeing, to contemplating; and the world, to acting for itself.”

“A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."”

“To write his views or his observations, his ideas, but not his judgments. Our judgments limit our views of things. Some enclosures, but no walls. The man who always write his judgments places before his eyes the calpe and abyla. He goes no further and creates a nec plus ultra. Thus, in the study of wisdom, many views and few judgments.”

“Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.”

“They do not know how to apply names to things.”

“Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.”