"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert”, p.21
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