Quote #75

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

More from Joseph Joubert

  1. There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
  2. There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
  3. There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability.
  4. They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
  5. There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as th…
  6. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
  7. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work.
  8. Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

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