Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert
1754–1824 France
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When we find what we have been looking for, we don't have time to say it. We must die.
Undoubtedly, philosophy caused the Revolution. But what caused philosophy? Theological arrogance.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Imprisoned in our bodies...and our soul has its windows.
Let us look for our light in our feelings. There is a warmth in them that contains many clarities.
Like those dreams that have pleased us. They escape us and we vainly try to hold onto them.
I know too well what I am going to say. I know it too well before writing.
My ideas! It is the house for lodging them that costs me so much to build.
I have too much brain for my head. It cannot play comfortably in its box.
The imagination is the eye of the soul.
Reason leads man back to his instincts.
The soul speaks to itself in parables.
Everything we can measure seems small.
The good is worth more than the best.
The breath of the mind is attention.
Wisdom is the strength of the weak.
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