thinking and feeling

"If all were rational nothing would get done."
- Attributed to Abigail Adams [1744-1818]

humanist

“All seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other’s error and nobody discerns his own.”
– Michael Servetus (a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist burnt at the stake for heresy in 1553)

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enlightenment groundwork

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
– Baruch Spinoza

on history

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
- Spinoza