Joseph Joubert

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We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert (7 May 1754 - 4 May 1824) was a French moralist and essayist.

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• Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 22.

• We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 425.

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• Pensées, essais, maximes et correspondance de J. Joubert Joubert's works (French originals) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Review of translations by Paul Auster