"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" Quotes
Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" argues that true Christianity calls for nonviolent resistance to evil and the rejection of state-sanctioned violence, emphasizing the moral and spiritual transformation of the individual.
philosophy | 352 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.
The whole trouble lies in the fact that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
