Sublime

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira.

Enlightenment, he maintains, comes not through learning and knowledge, but by living a life of simplicity and truth, by avoiding the exploitation of animals and the eating of meat, by loving one’s neighbour, by adopting a policy of non-resistance to evil and by condemning the futility, immorality and evil of war.

The purpose of a human life is to bring the irrational beginning of our life to a rational beginning. In order to succeed in this, two things are important: (1) to see all irrational, unwise things in life and direct your attention to them and study them; (2) to understand the possibility of a rational, wise life. The major purpose of all teachers

antediluvian

The Way of Life in 1910, the last year of his life. He wished to make the book easily comprehensible for even the simplest and least educated people—peasants and children. Most probably, Tolstoy compared A Calendar of Wisdom to War and Peace when he wrote that “To create a book for the masses, for millions of people … is incomparably more important

Life has been given to us not so that we can spend it in idle enjoyment. No, life is a struggle and a series of battles: the struggle of good with evil, of fairness with injustice, of freedom with oppression, of true love with the desires of the flesh. But we need to remember this not merely in order to criticize contemporary life, but so as to