Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 11

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• The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Iliad

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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• Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

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• The soul paints itself in our machines.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Machines, Paint

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• Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Soul, Important

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• Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

  Joseph Joubert

  Plato, Swans, Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Grief, Joy, Soul

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

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• The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Lying, Soul, Energy

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

  Joseph Joubert

  Cleanliness, Elegance, Temperance

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• In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Thinking, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.123

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• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Multitudes

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98

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• Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

  Joseph Joubert

  Angel, Moderation, Moved

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

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• Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sound, Logic, Grammar

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Style, Letters

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

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• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Hatred, Feelings

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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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• Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fate, Unconquerable

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• I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

  Joseph Joubert

  Littles, Moral, Prudence

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• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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• Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

  Joseph Joubert

  Speech, Incorporation

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

  Joseph Joubert

  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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