Zitat des Tages von Joseph Joubert:
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Children need models rather than critics.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
To teach is to learn twice.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Space is the stature of God.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Justice is the truth in action.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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.