I only smile when it's complicated

Aristotle said that a sign of an educated man is that he can keep 2 contradictory thoughts in his mind and let them fight for truth.

Interesting.
Somehow, to me it sounds also as an attribute of a loving person. Tolerant one.
However, there's an alarming number of hateful educated bastards.

If my hypothesis is correct, does it mean Aristotle is necessarily wrong?
No.
Depends on how we define an educated man.

Education is not a textbook thing. Czech dissidents learning latin in prisons come to my mind. Did they have the best teachers? Textbooks? Unlimited resources of study materials? Not by far!
Yet some of them wrote poems in latin. Others kept their notes in latin, so the prison officers couldn't read them.
There was a certain passion. Desire. Or perhaps necessity?
We could argue about that, but I am certain about what has motivated them this way: their experience.
Being in a prison isn't all rainbows and puppies.

In fact, though this may appear extremely deviated, we could say it helped them. Their crisis led them to understanding.

However desirable and comforting may life in wealth, peace and overall welfare be, it is thoroughly uninspiring to do great deeds. There's no reason to make world better, if it's okay already.
Only truly great men stand up to do something in this kind of environment.
Compared to political prison, where everyone wants to stand up against the evils.

That might render the world of welfare better, right?

Well, I think, on the contrary, that the simple deed of trying to make the world better anyhow you can is absolutely fulfilling, satisfactory.

There's probably something very wrong about this, but I enjoy things being fucked up. I can fix them, then. Also, it brings me closer to reality - there always are flaws, better to see them than to have them hurt you from cover.