Joseph Joubert Quotes

French moralist and essayist

Joseph Joubert (7 May 1754 – 4 May 1824) was a French moralist and essayist. He published nothing during his lifetime; after his death in 1824, Joubert's widow entrusted his manuscripts to François-René de Chateaubriand, who published a short selection of them for private circulation, under the title Recueil des Pensées de M. Joubert (Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert) (Paris, 1838). This volume was subsequently re-edited with many additions by Paul Raynal, a nephew of the author, under the new title of Pensées, Essais, Maximes et Correspondance de J. Joubert (Thoughts, Essays, Maxims and Correspondence of J. Joubert) (Paris, 1842). A selection from his correspondence was published in 1883.

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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Ask the young. They know everything.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

God has commanded time to console the afflicted.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

Some find activity only in repose, and others repose only in movement.

We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. (NYRB Classics; Main edition May 10, 2005) Originally published October 1983.

El objetivo de la argumentación o de la discusión, no debe de ser la victoria, si no el progreso

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