"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the Thoughts of Joseph Joubert”, p.32
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