Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 12

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• Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Discipline, Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

  Joseph Joubert

  Speech, Incorporation

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

  Joseph Joubert

  Song, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.11

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• Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

  Joseph Joubert

  Plato, Swans, Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

  Joseph Joubert

  Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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• Space is the stature of God.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Space, Star Gazing

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

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  Angel, Moderation, Moved

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Men, Self Love

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Age, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
  [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

  Joseph Joubert

  Wings, Feet, Imagination

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

  Joseph Joubert

  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Soul, Important

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• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pride, Men

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