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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
You talk to a man about simple, clear things, it would even seem necessary and indispensable for everyone, and he just waits for you to finish. And when you're done, respond with cunning, very clever reasoning related to the issue at hand. You wonder, what will this be? He is a man interested in all knowledge and capable of understanding, knows mathematics, solves chess problems wonderfully, and suddenly shows such a lack of understanding. Why? Because he feels that your idea destroys his position, and he values ââhis position more than the truth of the idea. That's why he doesn't understand, he doesn't want to understand what you say. Here is the explanation of all the absurd reasonings, recognized by the sciences that reign today. All this because people fall into two categories: for some the idea leads life, for others the opposite. Herein lies the key to explaining the madness of the world.