Joseph Joubert quotes - page 7

The people. They know how to know, but not how to choose. (Joseph Joubert)
To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it. View quote
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Let anger pass, make a place for it; do not impede its progress; do not disturb its development, give it the time it needs to die out, open a wide path for it. View quote
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I have not seen you since, but you have often appeared to me in my dreams. View quote
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No, men are not born to know, but they are destined for it. View quote
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Retreat often into your sphere, rest yourself in your center, plunge yourself into your element: good advice, which must be remembered. View quote
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Little people have few passions, they hardly have anything but needs. View quote
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There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game. View quote
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To compensate absence with memory. View quote
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"But he doesn't finish his sentences," (he said). And they don't finish their thoughts. - To finish their thoughts. - To finish one's thought! It is a long process, it is rare. It gives intense pleasure. Because every finished thought easily enters the mind. They don't have the same need to be beautiful in order to please. It is enough for them to be finished. The situation of the soul that has had such thoughts communicates itself to other souls and transfers its repose to them. View quote
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Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed. (Joseph Joubert)
Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent. View quote
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Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees. View quote
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Reason leads man back to his instincts. View quote
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It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good. View quote
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Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours. View quote
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The staircase that leads to God. What does it matter if it is make-believe, if we really climb it? What difference does it make who builds it, or if it is made of marble or word, of brick, stone, or mud? The essential thing is that it be solid and that in climbing it we feel the peace that is inaccessible to those who do not climb it. View quote
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We must try, as much as possible, not to mistrust anyone. View quote
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It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost. View quote
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The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contain only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties. View quote
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These thoughts form not only the foundation of my work, but of my life. (Joseph Joubert)
In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy. View quote
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I know too well what I am going to say. I know it too well before writing. View quote
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The phrase, "One dies before one has lived." View quote
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Everything we can measure seems small. View quote
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