The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

The influence of the Sermon on the Mount is truly past reckoning. Any rational human being with a conscientious mind is bound to be influenced by its exuberant content regardless of religious background.

Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.

All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

Teach your children, “love your neighbor like your family”, but “not because it is a Christian thing to do, rather because it is a human thing to do.