“They do not know how to apply names to things.”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“You are wise, and know how to apply it.”
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Source: Religion and Nothingness (1983), p. 101
The Epilogue : Which is the proper ending of all comedies; and heralds, it may be, an afterpiece.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are...
“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015
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