“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
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“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
― Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
― Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
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