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
beautiful song mean
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
flower simple expression
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.
expression hints needs
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
attention vessel
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
inspired surprise arise
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
writing air voice
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
giving soul flavor
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
two vices lovable
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
vanity handsome next
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
beautiful truth easier
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
travel judging world
To see the world is to judge the judges.
time doe wrenches
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
slander solace
Slander is the solace of malignity.
country paris separation
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.