Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ask the young. They know everything.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Children, Humorous

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Religion, Superstitions

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Firsts, Disputes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Doe, Wrenches

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.105

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• Work like you don't need the money.

  Joseph Joubert

  Dance, Work, Hippie

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• Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Ideas, Ministry

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• Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

  Joseph Joubert

  Limits, Authority, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

  Joseph Joubert

  Kindness, Should, Benevolence

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

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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charity, Charitable

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• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Heaven

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• The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Essence, Soul

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• Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Views, Hands

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• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Business, Ideas, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Shadow

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• Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

  Joseph Joubert

  Littles, Action

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When we love, it is the heart that judges.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Heart, Judging

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

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