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
spurs morality curb
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
moral ancient contempt
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
wrinkles smooth politeness
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
religion multitudes
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
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?
ambition greed matter
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
bees reason usefulness
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
crush errors delight
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
children pride men
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
excellence germs maxims
Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
sound logic grammar
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
heart doe harm
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.