"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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