"a readiness to accept disagreeable truths." He wrote about the Common Market, Soviet totalitarianism, the thought of Nietzsche and Lenin.
Hassner believes that a quotation from the 17th-century mathemati- cian Blaise Pascal best sums up Aron: "Greatness is not displayed standing at one extremity, but rather by touching both ends at once and filling all the space between."
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