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A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Cannonball
Cannonballs
Thought
Real
Thing

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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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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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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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 know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
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