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
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work
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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.
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Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear
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Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability
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There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are
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It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.