Joseph Joubert Quotes (44 quotes)

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„The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.“
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„Space is the stature of God.“
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„God is the place where I do not remember the rest.“
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„There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.“
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„The passions of the young are vices in the old.“
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„Ask the young. They know everything.“
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„You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.“
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„The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.“
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„Space is to place as eternity is to time.“
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„It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.“
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„All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.“
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„Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.“
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„Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.“
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„Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.“
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„Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.“
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„Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.“
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„Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.“
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„Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.“
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„One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.“
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„Misery is almost always the result of thinking.“
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Joseph Joubert
Author born: May 07, 1754
Author died: May 04, 1824
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Writer

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