Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Self-love and truth

Joseph Joubert:

Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection , trans. Paul Auster (New York: New York Review Books, 2005).
Also from Joseph Joubert
Resignation and courage : Thinking and writing

comments: 2

stefan said...

Oh, that's good. A shame it wouldn't easily fit on a ball cap.

Michael Leddy said...

Itr’d have to be a very big cap.