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
thinking heaven
Heaven is for those who think of it.
ideas bird mind
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
book reading mind
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
dream believe acting
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.
military sound reason
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
soul atmosphere mind
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
book ambition writing
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.
enmity today emotion
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
order profound people
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
people meals fabric
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
men joy religion
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
men heaven religion
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
leisure made verses
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
daughter simple men
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.