Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubertwas a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 May 1754
CountryFrance
madness advise
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
profound people shadow
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
consistency feelings opinion
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
indulge-in charity charitable
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
children pain wrinkles
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
soul religion superstitions
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
pain mind delight
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
reading book world
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
book men religion
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.
may convince
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
mind attention breaths
The breath of the mind is attention 128
flower animal giving
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
men intelligent age
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
book reading soul
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.