Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 5

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• Close your eyes and you will see.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Vision, Awe

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

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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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• 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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• The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essentials, Truth Is

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Use, Fancy

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• Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

  Joseph Joubert

  Evil, Abuse, Foundation

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• Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful

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

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• Politeness is the flower of humanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Meaningful, Flower, Humanity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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• How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Way

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Logic, Metaphysics

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

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• The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Air, Voice

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• Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Bees, Reason, Usefulness

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• When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

  Joseph Joubert

  Worry, Relief, Trouble

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

  Joseph Joubert

  Military, Sound, Reason

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• Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Travel, Age

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• The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Style, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Numbers, Wish

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Age, Lamps, Evening

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Destiny, Men

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• Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Motivation, May

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• How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

  Joseph Joubert

  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

  Joseph Joubert

  Window, Strikes

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

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  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Consolation

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

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