Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 2

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• Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Found, Poetry Is

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

  Joseph Joubert

  Heart, May, Rooms

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

  Joseph Joubert

  Spiritual, Soul, World

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

  Joseph Joubert

  Pain, Eye, Talking

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Twenties, Letters

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• The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Age, Innocence

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Genius, Standards

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

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Consistency, Feelings, Opinion

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• In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

  Joseph Joubert

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

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• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

  Joseph Joubert

  Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

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• Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.65

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• Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Weakness

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Vision

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

  Joseph Joubert

  Tree, Looks, Youth

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Humility, Echoes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Atmosphere, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.12

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• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

  Joseph Joubert

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Men

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• What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Selfishness, Introducing

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• Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

  Joseph Joubert

  Growing Up, Pain, People

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• Our life is woven wind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Wind, Woven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.77

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• If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

  Joseph Joubert

  Deeds, Rich, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspired, Surprise, Arise

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.83

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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