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Essayist, "Gedanken über das Wesen des Menschen", "Gesammelte Gedanken des Herrn Joubert" (Frankreich, 1754 - 1824).

Joseph Joubert · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Joseph Joubert wäre heute 270 Jahre, 11 Monate, 26 Tage oder 98.977 Tage alt.

Geboren am 07.05.1754 in Montignac
Gestorben am 04.05.1824 in Montignac
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

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

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• Justice without strength, or strength without justice; fearful misfortunes.

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• Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.

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• Masterworks owe their conception to genius, their completion to diligence.

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• Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions: They do not enlighten, but guide and direct, and though themselves blind, are protecting.

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• Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.

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• Never cut what you can untie.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• No one can give faith unless he has faith. It is the persuaded who persuade.

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• No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

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• Our reason can tell us what we shouldn't do - but our heart can tell us what we must do.

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• Perhaps, for worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

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• Space is the statue of God.

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• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

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• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

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• The beautiful! It is beauty seen with the eye of the soul.

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• The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. - Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.

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• The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb.

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• The wish to be independent of all men, and not to be under obligation to any one is the sure sign of a soul without tenderness.

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

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