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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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“Fear feeds the imagination.”
“Politeness smooths wrinkles.”
“Sloth waiting for inspiration.”
“Anger, which purges resentment.”
“To teach is to learn twice over.”
“Half myself mocks the other half.”
“Everything that is exact is short.”
“Think nothing outside their paper.”
“Let's go; and follow your mistake.”
“One must die lovable (if one can).”
“Ask the young. They know everything.”
“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”
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Joseph Joubert on Beauty
“Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”
Joseph Joubert on Honey
Joseph Joubert on Ageing
“Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
Joseph Joubert on Religion
“Religion is the only metaphysics that the multitude can understand and adopt.”
Joseph Joubert on Parable
“The soul speaks to itself in parables. Like those dreams that have pleased us.”
Joseph Joubert on Aphorisms
“Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.”
Joseph Joubert on Genius
“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”
Joseph Joubert on Clarity
Joseph Joubert on Symmetry
“To let the reader sometimes complete the symmetry between words and to do no more than suggest it. In this painting of our life given to us by our memories, everything is moving and depends on our point of view.”
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Maurice Blanchot on Joseph Joubert
“Joubert had this gift. He never wrote a book. He only prepared to write one, resolutely seeking the exact conditions that would allow him to write it. Then he forgot even his plan.”
George H. Calvert on Joseph Joubert
“In selecting from the “Thoughts” I have sought those that are the largest and deepest, that are the least one-sided or partial, those that combine originality with beauty, brevity with weight, freshness with truth ; and thence I have passed over most of those that were written under dogmatic influences, and which, therefore, seem to me partial or one-sided. At the same time, to any who shall find themselves profited by what is here given them in English, may be cordially recommended the original volume, of which scarcely the half is here translated.”
About Joseph Joubert
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.