William Least Heat-Moon vs. Joseph Joubert
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
William Least Heat-Moon
1939 – present
William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer and historian. He describes his heritage as English, Irish, and Osage. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through the United States, including cross-country trips by boat and, in his best known work, about his journey in a 1975 Ford Econoline van.
"At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to t…"
Joseph Joubert
1754 – 1824
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.
"To speak with his imagination, but to think with his reason."
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