10 Quotes By Joseph Roux


Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux on experience

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux on friendship

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux on happiness

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux on peace

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Joseph Roux on poetry

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux on poetry

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux on poetry

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux on science

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux on wisdom

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux on wisdom