Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
More Quotes from Leon Trotsky:
The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.Leon Trotsky
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Leon Trotsky
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky
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