Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert
1754–1824 France
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The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.
Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.
It's not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.
Illusions comes from heaven and mistakes come from us.
Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.
Maxims, because what is isolated can be seen better.
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.
One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary.
All those whom for style is not a game but a labor.
You want to talk to someone: first open your ears.
All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.
Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.
They do not know how to apply names to things.
It seems there is something spiritual in wine.
From the center we should perceive the circle.
Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?
The things we know when not thinking of them.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
The phrase, "One dies before one has lived."
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.