Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 11

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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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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Action, Enlightening

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fall, May, Dregs

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.106

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• Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sound, Logic, Grammar

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Style, Letters

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

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• Ornaments were invented by modesty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ornaments, Modesty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Hatred, Feelings

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• The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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  Religion, Iliad

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

  Joseph Joubert

  Littles, Moral, Prudence

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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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• 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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• Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

  Joseph Joubert

  Spurs, Morality, Curb

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• Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

  Joseph Joubert

  Energy, Talent, Muscles

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• God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

  Joseph Joubert

  Remember

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• Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.91

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• We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

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  God, Constrain, Knows

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• Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

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  Religion, Multitudes

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98

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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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• Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

  Joseph Joubert

  Philosophy

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• Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

  Joseph Joubert

  Surprise, Wells, Audience

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

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  Freedom, Soul, Important

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• Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fate, Unconquerable

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

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  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

  Joseph Joubert

  Angel, Moderation, Moved

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

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• There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

  Joseph Joubert

  Witty, Men, Wit

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