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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
Today, September 5, 1910, I clearly understood the meaning of matter, space, movement, time. Space is the measure of matter, time is the measure of motion. If I say that matter is hard, I am only saying that it is harder than something less hard. Iron is stronger than stone, stone than wood, wood than clay, clay than water, water than air, air than ether, ether than what? All these measures of strength against the zero strength that I know is within me. Same with space. Sirius is further than the sun, the sun than the earth, the earth than the moon, the moon, than Siberia, Siberia than Moscow, and so on to my hand, my body, the zero distance that I know is in me. Same with movement, time. The primordial geological minerals are earlier than plants, plants than animals, animals than man, Egyptians than Jews, Jews than Greeks, and so on to the zero of time in me, and to the zero of time movement that I know is in me. And that is why only what is immaterial, nonspatial and immovable, that is, timeless, exists and is real. And this is what I am aware that I am. (I expressed myself badly, but it's okay.)