Sublime

Pierre’s insanity consisted in the fact that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people’s merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and, loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

To return good for evil is easier, more natural, and more rational than to return evil for evil. Tolstoy

The improvement of man can be measured by the level of his inner freedom. The more a person becomes free from his personality, the more freedom he has.

‘I think,’ said Konstantin, ‘that no activity can be solid unless it’s based on personal interest. That is a general truth, a philosophical one,’ he said, resolutely repeating the word ‘philosophical’, as if wishing to show that he, too, had the right, like anyone else, to speak of philosophy.

The substantial evil that is war, however large, is insignificant when compared with the evil perversion of the understanding of good and evil which war brings into the hearts of simple, unsophisticated working people. Tolstoy

“Virtue is loving people.”