Pieter

“In reality I was ever revolving round one and the same insoluble problem, which was: How to teach without knowing what to teach.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“I am speaking of people of our educational level who are sincere with themselves, and not of those who make the profession of faith a means of attaining worldly aims. (Such people are the most fundamental infidels, for if faith is for them a means of attaining any worldly aims, then certainly it is not faith.) these people of our education are so placed that the light of knowledge and life has caused an artificial erection to melt away, and they have either already noticed this and swept its place clear, or they have not yet noticed it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have the best for oneself and one's family.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings