Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 12

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

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  Law, Action, Enlightening

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

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  Education, Children, Parent

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• The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

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  Fall, May, Dregs

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.106

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• We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

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  Power, Excellence, Wells

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• Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

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  Spurs, Morality, Curb

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• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

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  Children, Pride, Men

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

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  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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  Men, Joy, Religion

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• There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

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  Self Esteem, Men, Long

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• Heaven is for those who think of it.

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  Thinking, Heaven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.35

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• There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

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  Witty, Men, Wit

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• To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

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  Ideas, Age, Moral

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

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  People, Meals, Fabric

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• We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

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  Love, Men, Self Love

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

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• History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

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  Distance, History, Perspective

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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