Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.