Quotes by Joseph Joubert

About Joseph Joubert:

Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which was published posthumously.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joseph Joubert

The breath of the mind is attention 128

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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Joseph Joubert

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Joseph Joubert

Everything has its poetry. 94

Joseph Joubert

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Joseph Joubert

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Joseph Joubert

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the o...

Joseph Joubert

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

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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.

Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Joseph Joubert

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Joseph Joubert

Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Joubert
  • DescriptionFrench writer
  • BornMay 7, 1754
  • DiedMay 4, 1824
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Essayist; Writer