Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 4

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• The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

  Joseph Joubert

  Paper, Patient, Reader

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• Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  Expression, Needs, Hints

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

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  Liquid, Language, Mark

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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  Blessing, Victory, Progress

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

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  Art, Real, Secret

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• Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

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  Pain, Half, Feels

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• We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

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  Passion, Use, Stuff

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.58

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• Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

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  Practice, Grace, Growth

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

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  God, Ideas, Judging

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

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• Virtue is the health of the soul.

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  Healthy, Soul, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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• The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

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  Joy, Noble, Shows

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

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  God, Believe, Thinking

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• There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

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  Daughter, Admiration

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• When you give, give with joy and smiling.

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  Giving, Joy

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

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• The breath of the mind is attention.

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  Mind, Attention, Breaths

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

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• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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  Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

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• Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

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  Two, Vices, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

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  Intelligence, Mediocre, Sentiments

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• What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

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  Men, Feelings, Enthusiasm

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

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• One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

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• Everything that is exact is short.

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  Simplicity

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

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• We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

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  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

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  Attention, Vessel

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• A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

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  Real, Cannonballs

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

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