What our eyes see, our imagination can no longer see. The same things cannot be the object of both kinds of seeing. —Joseph Joubert, Notebooks, 1797
The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye. —Joseph Joubert, Notebooks, 1797
Images have had a great influence on realities. —Joseph Joubert, Notebooks, 1798
The sign then makes us forget the thing signified. —Joseph Joubert, Notebooks, 1798
What is closest to our senses [is] farthest from our soul. —Joseph Joubert, Notebooks, 1800
Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.--Joseph Joubert, _Pense'es_, 1842
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself. Joubert (1754-1824)
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. -- Joseph Joubert
Wisdom is the strength of the weak. —Joseph Joubert
Illusion is in sensations. Error is in judgments. We know truth and at the same time take pleasure in illusion. —Joseph Joubert
Deism. The human species cannot accommodate itself to it. This doctrine relates to our strengths but not to our weaknesses. —Joseph Joubert
In order to be known, [God] would have to make us immortal and give us another life. —Joseph Joubert
The dying inherit the dead. —Joseph Joubert, Auster, Paul, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (NYRB, 2005)]
Never cut what you can untie.-- Joseph Joubert
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.- Joubert
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