Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

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

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!'

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