“But we are all also asked to live with our eyes open, in full view of just how complicated both we and the world are, and thus of how hard and elusive moral progress really is. We can and must improve ourselves; but we cannot perfect ourselves. We can and must improve the world, but we cannot perfect it.”
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Shai Held,
The Heart of Torah, Volume 1: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion: Genesis and Exodus
