Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 12

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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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• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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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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• 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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• One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Joy, Religion

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Meals, Fabric

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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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• We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Giving, Opinion

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Power, Excellence, Wells

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Philosophy

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