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Joseph Joubert [1754-1824] French

Rank: 101
Writer, Essayist

Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées, which was published posthumously.
From the age of fourteen Joubert attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he later taught until 1776.

Imagination, Learning, Poetry, Anger, Beauty, Best, Dad, Fear, Future, Love, Marriage, Nature, Religion, Respect, Space, Truth, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.	Love	101
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.	Poetry	102
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.	Nature	103
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.		104
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.		105
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.	Religion	106
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.		107
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.		108
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.	Anger, Best	109
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.	Future, Respect	110
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.	Marriage	111
Innocence is always unsuspicious.		112
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.	Truth	113
Imagination is the eye of the soul.	Imagination	114
Politeness is the flower of humanity.		115
Never cut what you can untie.	Wisdom	116
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.		117
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.	Dad, Fear	118
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.	Beauty	119
Children need models rather than critics.		120
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.	Imagination, Learning	121
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.	Imagination, Learning	122
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.		123
Ask the young. They know everything.		124
To teach is to learn twice.		125
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.		126
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.		201
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.		202
The passions of the young are vices in the old.		203
Space is to place as eternity is to time.	Space	204
Justice is the truth in action.		205
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.		206
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.		207
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.		208
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.		209
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.		210
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.		211
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.		212
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.		213
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.		214
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.		215
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.	Poetry	216
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.		217
Space is the stature of God.		218

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