In Conflict with the Entire World

by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

If I must be a man who is in conflict with the entire world because of the tendency for truth that is deep in my spirit, which does not tolerate any tendency toward falsehood, I cannot be someone else.

I must bring out from the potential to the actual only the essential foundations of truth that are hidden in my spirit, without any concern for what the world thinks with all of its value judgments.

That is the maxim of the person who seeks truth, who awakens with his supernal might. That is the might of the world. That is an eternal might that is connected to the fate of the eternity of Israel, which is girded with might.

Chadarav, p. 146-147