Quote #68
The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
More from Joseph Joubert
- The passions of the young are vices in the old.
- The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
- The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb.
- The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
- The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
- There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work.
- The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
- There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as th…