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The teacher of love teaches struggle. The teacher of lifeless isolation from the world teaches peace.

— Karl Jaspers Psychology of World Views (1919)

Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.

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