# Joseph Joubert

- Quotes: 251
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert

## Books

- [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — 252 quotes

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> Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

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> Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

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> You want to talk to someone: first open your ears.

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> Everyone makes and has need of making a world other than the one he sees.

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> Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.

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> Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.

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> When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't.

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> Courage (in a soldier) is maintained by a certain anger; anger is a little blind and likes to strike out. And from this follows a thousand abuses, a thousand evils and misfortunes that are impossible to predict in an army during war.

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> It is not light that burns, that purifies, that consumes, that divides, and that recomposes; it is fire. And this fire we are talking about always follows light.

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> Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

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> You want to explain everything by the facts that are known to you. But the facts that are not known to you? What do they say?

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> Melancholy: when we have sorrows without a name.

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