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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Contemplates
Metaphysics
Contemplating
Reasoning
Math
Logic
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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A temperate style is alone classical.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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