Quote #98
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
More from Joseph Joubert
- Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
- Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
- When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
- Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
- When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
- Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.
- What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
- You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.