“…not to laugh at human actions…”

“…not to laugh at human actions…”

different realities…

 

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions,

   not to weep at them, not to hate them,

      but to understand them.”

 

Baruch Spinoza (Benedict de Spinoza) (1632-1677)

from Spinoza’s Tractatus Politicus, 1676

 

I accept the reality that some other people

don’t see reality the same way I see it.

I don’t like it, but I accept it.

I keep my candle burning in the darkness.

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