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
law discipline religion
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
fire religion alive
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
religion virtue
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
religion iliad
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
soul religion superstitions
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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.
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.
religion multitudes
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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.
aim argument discussion motivational quote-of-the-day
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
choose friend marriage whom woman
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man
want-him want said
I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie