Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Joseph Joubert

  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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Healthy, Soul, Virtue

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

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

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

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Believe, Thinking

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Admiration

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The breath of the mind is attention.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Attention, Breaths

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

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• When you give, give with joy and smiling.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Joy

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

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Two, Vices, Virtue

  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.

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  Children, Firsts, Disputes

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligence, Mediocre, Sentiments

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

  Joseph Joubert

  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.

  Joseph Joubert

  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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Real, Cannonballs

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

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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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Attention, Vessel

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• A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Truth, Memories

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• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Age, Honored

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

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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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• Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pain, Wrinkles

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

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• Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

  Joseph Joubert

  Excellence, Germs, Maxims

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

  Joseph Joubert

  Evil, Abuse, Foundation

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• Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Use, Fancy

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• Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

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  Beauty, Beautiful

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.146

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