Joseph Joubert on Beauty
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Joseph Joubert, catalogued under beauty, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Joseph Joubert and filed under "beauty" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Joseph Joubert, entry #29864: "There must be several voices together in one voice for it to be beautiful. And several meanings in one word for it to be beautiful."
Attributed to Joseph Joubert, entry #26965: "What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly."
10 Quotes by Joseph Joubert on Beauty
"There must be several voices together in one voice for it to be beautiful. And several meanings in one word for it to be beautiful."
"What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly."
"All beautiful words are susceptible to more than one meaning ."
"Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions."
"Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose."
"Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be."
"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
"Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial."
"For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors."
"All clear and transparent words appear to be beautiful sounds. Yes and no are not precisely clear words, but definite words. In clear words, there is more light than movement or attitude."