Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 6

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• TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moments, Hostile

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• Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

  Joseph Joubert

  Excess, Delight, Deprived

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Hiking, Arguing

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

  Joseph Joubert

  Agriculture, Kind, Excellent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We disjoint the mind like the body.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Body

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• He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

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

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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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• The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

  Joseph Joubert

  Heart, Men, Silence

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

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• Tenderness is the rest of passion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Tenderness

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• Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

  Joseph Joubert

  Light, Shadow, Made

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• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Illusion, Charm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

  Joseph Joubert

  War, Order, Born

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• Space is to place as eternity is to time.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Space, Eternity

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

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  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

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  Together, Life Is, Togetherness

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

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  Grace, Feelings, Movement

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Add

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• Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

  Joseph Joubert

  Political, Curiosity, Mind

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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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• It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Happiness, Aspect, Deserve

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

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  Essence, Volume, Sentences

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Passion, Vices

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