“ ...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. ”
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
The soul is healed by being with children.
I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
