“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
My Religion (1884), Ch. 12
“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Only deeds of truth, by introducing light into the conscience of each individual, can dissolve the cohesion of error, and detach men one by one from the mass united together by the cohesion of error.”
My Religion (1884), Ch. 12
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