Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Joseph Joubert

10 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Joseph Joubert

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When the mind wanders, Joubert’s short musings can act like a gentle guide. These ten quotes capture his reflective tone on thought, memory, and the quiet spaces between ideas, making it a handy companion for anyone who enjoys a thoughtful pause.

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Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

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In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able…

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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and…

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A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain…

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It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed…

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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must…

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Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

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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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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a…

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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 we speak…

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