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Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert

1754–1824 France

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233 quotes

Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Available. A thought is perfect only when it is perfectly available, that is to say when one can place it and detach it at will.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Reason does not reason. It goes straight to the fact or the consequence.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

There must be several voices together in one voice for it to be beautiful. And several meanings in one word for it to be beautiful.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Strength is not energy. Some writers have more muscles than talent.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Tacitus. And all those words that are obscure only once.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

They speak to the ear. I want to speak to the memory.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

To draw up in advance an exact and detailed plan is to deprive our minds of the pleasures of the encounter and the novelty that comes from executing the work.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Glory. Lovelier to desire than to possess.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

An oratorical style often has the same drawbacks as those operas in which the music prevents you from hearing the words. Here the words prevent you from seeing the thoughts.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

I did not have good eyes nor light in my mind that day.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Let anger pass, make a place for it; do not impede its progress; do not disturb its development, give it the time it needs to die out, open a wide path for it.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

It is very difficult to be wise (through the mind); it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Never the mind without the soul.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Once we have tasted the juice of words, our mind can no longer pass them by. We drink thought from them.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

We are worth more when someone looks at us. And, because of this, an eye is always watching us.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Joubert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.