The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom."
"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
"I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which came to an end without having ever found self-expression or return. It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood's days, for those days to come back to me!"
"Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau."
"There are such repulsive faces in the world."
"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."