Beauty Quotes by Joseph Joubert

10 Beauty quotes by Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert’s ten short musings on beauty capture his reflective wit in a few well‑chosen words. The collection feels like a pocket‑sized notebook of observations—perfect for a brief, contemplative moment.

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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.

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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

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We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

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The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that…

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He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind…

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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when…

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Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

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What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

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Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

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Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

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How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

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God has commanded Time to console the unhappy

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

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