Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 9

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Virtue

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• Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Illusion, Charm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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• To see the world is to judge the judges.

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  Travel, Judging, World

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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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Ambition

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

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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.

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  Enmity, Today, Emotion

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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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• 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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• Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

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  Education, Lax, Cold

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

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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.

  Joseph Joubert

  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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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

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  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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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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• 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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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

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  Essence, Ideas, Giving

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

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• If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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  Warrior, Authority, Wells

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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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• Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

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  Book, Excess, Littles

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

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  Heart, Doe, Harm

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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  Book, Reputation, Made

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.147

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• Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

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  Exercise, Giving, Brain

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• Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

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  Fall, Lips, Surprise

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.25

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• Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

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  Kindness, Grace, Modesty

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