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
Joseph Joubert quotes about
flower animal giving
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
silence poet fingers
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
children pain wrinkles
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
grief joy soul
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
fate unconquerable
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
luxury taste moral
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
deeds rich virtue
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
way familiar familiarity
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
education children parent
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
eye double-minded duplicity
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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.
essentials truth-is
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
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.
order soul mind
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter.