leo-tolstoy
The recognition or non-recognition of a certain truth depends not on external
causes, but on certain other causes within the man himself. So that at times under
external conditions very favorable for the recognition of truth, one man will not
recognize it, and another, on the contrary, under the most unfavorable conditions
will without apparent cause recognize it…the recognition of truth … does not
depend on external phenomena, but on certain inner spiritual characteristics of the
man which escape our observation

Count Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You

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