"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert”, p.83
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