Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 9

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  People, Dumb, Mind

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

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

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  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.

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  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

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  Ideas, Bird, Mind

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

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  Love, Punishment, Too Much

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

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• The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are those to whom one must advise madness.

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  Madness, Advise

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• Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

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  May, Praise, Innocent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

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  Chastity, Senses, Supreme

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• Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Virtue

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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.

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  Soul, Body, Taste

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

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  Giving, Soul, Flavor

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

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  Pain, Mind, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.141

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• In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

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  Dream, Believe, Acting

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

  Joseph Joubert

  Enmity, Today, Emotion

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• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

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  Book, Writing, Ambition

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

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• Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

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  Play, Ideas, Clarity

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

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• In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

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  Clothes, Age, Youth

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

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• Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

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  Flower, Science, Animal

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

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  Appreciate, Crucible, Criticism

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• I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

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  Mean, Men, Coins

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• Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

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  Wise, Fashion, Often Is

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• Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.

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  Order, Soul, Mind

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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