Joseph Joubert Quotes

How goodness heightens beauty!

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

To love beauty is to see light.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.