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
people world littles
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation
believe greatness people
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
thinking people want
Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.
kindness loving people
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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.
growing-up pain people
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
people age knows
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
eye people mediocrity
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
people dumb mind
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
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.
people profound way
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
decide deciding question stir stirring
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up
argument debate question settle settling
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.