Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 3

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• Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, People, Mediocrity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

  Joseph Joubert

  Life, Action, Impulse

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.63

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• The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  History, Mind, Progress

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• The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Essence, Soul

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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charity, Charitable

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Business, Ideas, Age

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Shadow

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• The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

  Joseph Joubert

  Paper, Patient, Reader

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• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Heaven

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• Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

  Joseph Joubert

  Littles, Action

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• It is always our inabilities that vex us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inability, Vex, Ability

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

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• Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  Expression, Needs, Hints

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Views, Hands

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Use, Stuff

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.58

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• To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Respect, Worthy, Capable

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.120

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• Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

  Joseph Joubert

  Liquid, Language, Mark

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Practice, Grace, Growth

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Real, Secret

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• Virtue is the health of the soul.

  Joseph Joubert

  Healthy, Soul, Virtue

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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• The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Ideas, Judging

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter, Admiration

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

  Joseph Joubert

  Real, Cannonballs

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

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Believe, Thinking

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