"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them."
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Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert. Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
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