Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 8

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• You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
  As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection,
  the word blossoms.

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Perfection, Degrees

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

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• Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

  Joseph Joubert

  Song, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.11

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• Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sex, Women, Wind

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• Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

  Joseph Joubert

  Doe, Instruments, Transport

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

  Joseph Joubert

  Humor, Wings, Mind

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• When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Eye, Looks

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Light, Flames

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Needs, Natural

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• Politeness smooths wrinkles.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wrinkles, Smooth, Politeness

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• A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Hypocrite, Men

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• It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Truth, Easier

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Simple, Men

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• The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Age, Lamps

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• Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Vices, Virtue, Calculations

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.87

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• Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Understanding, Beautiful Thoughts

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, Color, Finishing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Dumb, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.20

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

  Joseph Joubert

  Moral, Ancient, Contempt

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Punishment, Too Much

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

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• The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Bird, Mind

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• There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Body, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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