Joseph Joubert on Love
Browse 19 quotations attributed to Joseph Joubert, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joseph Joubert, entry #163815: "My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all."
Attributed to Joseph Joubert, entry #27100: "We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart."
19 Quotes by Joseph Joubert on Love
"My soul lives in a place where the passions have passed by and where I have known them all."
"We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart."
"Man loves what is small; and he loves what is big, through the same weakness."
"Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth."
"We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
"I love to see two truths at the same time. Every good comparison gives the mind this advantage."
"The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever."
"Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed."
"One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks."
"Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all."
"Little people have few passions, they hardly have anything but needs."
"We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness."
"It is impossible to love the same person twice."
"Glory. Lovelier to desire than to possess."
"Animals love the people who talk to them."
"Tenderness is the repose of passion."
"The talkative person is one who speaks more than he thinks. Someone who thinks a great deal and talks a great deal is never considered a talkative person. The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart."
"Whoever does not see his friends in a good light loves them little. To see in a good light. — Whoever does not see in a good light is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover. Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good."
"Pride swells the brain. Vanity carries with it smoke, minds. Hatred tightens the heart. Love warms the lungs. Admiration stops the heart. We breathe through desire. We want to pump up all that delights, and dilates. Sadness is inaction. The love that comes from the blood, the love that comes from the soul."