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Joseph Joubert on Memory

1754–1824 France

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In this painting of our life given to us by our memories, everything is moving and depends on our point of view.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Speak for the ear and write for the memory.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

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

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

To compensate absence with memory.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883)

Attribution

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