Joseph Joubert Ideas Quotations

Fear loves the idea of danger.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102