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Joseph Joubert
1754-1824 (Age at death: 70 approx.)
125 Quotation(s) Total:
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Every emotion seeks its own nourishment; fear likes the idea of danger. |
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Every form of extravagance corrupts either one's morals or one's taste. |
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Every mind has its dregs. |
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Feeling should be held near to the heart. When you accustom your heart to love things which have only an intellectual existence, you become attached to mere abstractions, and easily sacrifice realities to them. When you have a great love for mankind in the mass, there is no affection left to distribute among individuals: all your benevolence has been spent on the universal, and the individual comes in too late. There philosophical passions, which... |
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Few men are worthy of experience. The majority let it corrupt them. |
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FORCE and right rule everything in this world; force until right appears." |
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Genuine good sayings surprise the author as much as the listeners. They come to birth spontaneously, or at least without our participation, like everything that is inspired. |
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Good will links together with our own powers and possessions the powers and possessions of every being it embraces. Man is an immense being in some sort, who can exist partially, but whose existence grows more delectable as it grows fuller, more entire. |
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Good will links together with our own powers and possessions the powers and possessions of every being it embraces. Man is an immense being in some sort, who can exist partially, but whose existence grows more delectable as it grows fuller, more entire. |
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Happy are those who have a lyre in their heart and a music in their disposition which their actions set in play. Their whole life will have been a harmony in tune with the paeans of eternity. |
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He who has Imagination without Erudition, has Wings but no Feet." |
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How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void. |
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How many scholars there are who hammer out knowledge; hard working, enthusiastic, indefatigable Cyclops-- with only one eye. |
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I want neither a mind without vision nor a mind without blinkers. You must be able to blind yourself for happiness in this life. |
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I want neither a mind without vision nor a mind without blinkers. You must be able to blind yourself for happiness in this life. |
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If we spend our lives in loving, we have no leisure to complain, or to feel unhappiness. |
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If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. |
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Imagination is the eye of the soul |
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In love, the heart is the judge. |
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In our elevated moods we delight in generalization; in our graver moods we incline to application. |
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