Quotes by Joubert, Joseph

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. >>

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating >>

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to >>

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs >>

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one' >>

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Joubert, Joseph