Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 6

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• To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

  Joseph Joubert

  Journey, Hiking, Arguing

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

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  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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• Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

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  Agriculture, Kind, Excellent

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• We disjoint the mind like the body.

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  Mind, Body

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• Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

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  Limits, Authority, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

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

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• The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

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  Heart, Men, Silence

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

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• Tenderness is the rest of passion.

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  Passion, Tenderness

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• Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

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  Light, Shadow, Made

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• Our life is woven wind.

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  Life, Wind, Woven

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.77

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• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

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  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

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  War, Order, Born

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• Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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  Time, Space, Eternity

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

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  Inspirational, Work, Commitment

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• What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

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  Mind, Add

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• Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

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  Political, Curiosity, Mind

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• The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

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  Essentials, Truth Is

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• It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

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  Happiness, Aspect, Deserve

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• Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

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  Together, Life Is, Togetherness

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

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  Essence, Volume, Sentences

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

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  Grace, Feelings, Movement

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

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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  Time, Passion, Vices

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• We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

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  Mind, Would Be, Esteem

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• It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

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  Flower, Simple, Expression

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• Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

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  Mind, Subjects

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