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Joseph Joubert quotes - page 3
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert
God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.
Joseph Joubert
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
Joseph Joubert
I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage.
Joseph Joubert
One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.
Joseph Joubert
One always adds a little of one's soul to what one thinks.
Joseph Joubert
When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't.
Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
One must die lovable (if one can).
Joseph Joubert
Solitude gives an I. I that gives solitude. It is in our thoughts, and the one the world gives, in our feelings. Because solitude grows accustomed to seeing, to contemplating; and the world, to acting for itself.
Joseph Joubert
A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."
Joseph Joubert
To write his views or his observations, his ideas, but not his judgments. Our judgments limit our views of things. Some enclosures, but no walls. The man who always write his judgments places before his eyes the calpe and abyla. He goes no further and creates a nec plus ultra. Thus, in the study of wisdom, many views and few judgments.
Joseph Joubert
Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.
Joseph Joubert
They do not know how to apply names to things.
Joseph Joubert
Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.
Joseph Joubert
Nothing is better than a justified enthusiasm.
Joseph Joubert
Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.
Joseph Joubert
My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.
Joseph Joubert
To know: it is to see inside oneself.
Joseph Joubert
Available. A thought is perfect only when it is perfectly available, that is to say when one can place it and detach it at will.
Joseph Joubert
For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.
Joseph Joubert
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