Our whole life is in flat contradiction with all we know, and with all we regard as necessary and right.
 Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894). copy citation

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Author Leo Tolstoy
Source The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Topic contradiction life
Date 1894
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Garnett
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“From this inconsistency between the new conception of life and practical life follows a whole succession of contradictions and sufferings which embitter our life and necessitate its alteration. One need only compare the practice of life with the theory of it, to be dismayed at the glaring antagonism between our conditions of life and our conscience. Our whole life is in flat contradiction with all we know, and with all we regard as necessary and right. This contradiction runs through everything, in economic life, in political life, and in international life. As though we had forgotten what we knew and put away for a time the principles we believe in” source