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Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées , which were published posthumously. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. May 1754 – 4. May 1824  •  Other names Joseph Antoine René Joubert
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Joseph Joubert Quotes

“I am like Montaigne: "unsuited to continuous discourse."”

Joseph Joubert

“The mind can only create errors. Truths are not created, they exist; one can only see them, disentangle them, discover them, and expose them.”

Joseph Joubert

“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”

Joseph Joubert

“Ask the young. They know everything.”

Joseph Joubert

“The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.”

Joseph Joubert

“The truth by way of illusion.”

Joseph Joubert

“Wisdom is the strength of the weak.”

Joseph Joubert

“The imagination is the eye of the soul.”

Joseph Joubert

“Whoever consults the light within himself (it is within everyone) excels at judging the object this light illumines.”

Joseph Joubert

“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

Joseph Joubert

“All those whom for style is not a game but a labor.”

Joseph Joubert

“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.”

Joseph Joubert

“Let us remember that everything is double.”

Joseph Joubert

“Speak more softly to be better heard by a deaf public.”

Joseph Joubert

“This poetic nudity within words.”

Joseph Joubert

“A person who is never duped cannot be a friend.”

Joseph Joubert

“He must not cultivate his friends, but cultivate his friendships within himself. They must be kept, cared for, watered.”

Joseph Joubert

“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”

Joseph Joubert

“To teach is to learn twice over.”

Joseph Joubert

“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?”

Joseph Joubert

“Fear feeds the imagination.”

Joseph Joubert

“What we say is similar to what we are.”

Joseph Joubert

“Sloth waiting for inspiration.”

Joseph Joubert

“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.”

Joseph Joubert

“Speak for the ear and write for the memory.”

Joseph Joubert

“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.”

Joseph Joubert

“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”

Joseph Joubert

Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève.

“And perhaps there is no advice to give a writer more important than this: — Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure.”

Joseph Joubert

“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”

Joseph Joubert