Joseph Joubert citáty

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„Tienistou stránkou nových kníh je, že pre ne nemôžeme čítať knihy staršie.“

„Nádej je pôžička šťastia.“

„Deti viac potrebujú vzory ako kritiku.“

„Výchova má byť láskavá a prísna, nie studená a ľahostajná.“

„Kto nikdy nemení názory, miluje seba viac ako pravdu.“

„Čo je pravda vo svetle lampy, nebýva často pravda pri slnečnom svetle.“

„Ľudia, ktorí nikdy neustúpia od svojej mienky, ju milujú viac ako pravdu.“

„Pravda sa podobá nebu a mienka oblakom.“

„Za manželku si treba vybrať iba takú ženu, ktorú by sme si vybrali za priateľa, keby bola mužom.“

„Ženy považujú za nevinné všetko, čoho sa dopúšťajú.“

„Bez povinnosťou je život mäkký a akoby bez kostí - nedrží pohromade.“

„Boh je miesto, kde si už nič iného nepamätám.“

„Človek upadá do nešťastia často len preto, že veľa premýšľa.“

„Je lepšie problém posúdiť pred rozhodnutím, ako rozhodnúť bez toho, aby sme ho posúdili.“

„Kto sa chce starať o budúcnosť, musí prijímať minulosť s úctou a prítomnosť s nedôverou.“

„Otázky odhaľujú hĺbku rozumu, odpovede jeho ostrosť.“

„Spravodlivosť bez sily a sila bez spravodlivosti sú dve nešťastia.“

„To najlepšie v človeku sú mladistvé city a zrelé myšlienky.“

„Vďaka dôvere možno znemožniť, aby nás oklamali.“

„Večer života prináša so sebou i svoju lampu.“

“Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.”

“When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.”

“This poetic nudity within words.”

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

“A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.”

“He must not cultivate his friends, but cultivate his friendships within himself. They must be kept, cared for, watered.”

“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”

“To teach is to learn twice over.”

“You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?”

“Fear feeds the imagination.”

“What we say is similar to what we are.”

“Sloth waiting for inspiration.”

“Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness.”

“One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.”

“Speak for the ear and write for the memory.”

“There must be several voices together in one voice for it to be beautiful. And several meanings in one word for it to be beautiful.”

“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”

“And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.”

“All beautiful words are susceptible to more than one meaning (or signification).”

“When men are imbeciles, the one who is mad dominates the others.”

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

“All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.”

“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”

“The number of books is infinite.”

“The good is worth more than the best.”

“Pride swells the brain. Vanity carries with it smoke, minds. Hatred tightens the heart. Love warms the lungs. Admiration stops the heart. We breathe through desire. We want to pump up all that delights, and dilates. Sadness is inaction. The love that comes from the blood, the love that comes from the soul.”

“Once we have tasted the juice of words, our mind can no longer pass them by. We drink thought from them.”

“One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary.”

“All clear and transparent words appear to be beautiful sounds. Yes and no are not precisely clear words, but definite words. In clear words, there is more light than movement or attitude.”