"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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