Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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• Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. Activity
• Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. Discovering
• The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch… Adhesive
• It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true,… Absurd
• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… Among
• Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister Aware
• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities… Absurdities
• In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are… Bad
• The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe Belief
• If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you… Another Get
• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake… Animal
• In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power… Answer
• Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them… Capital
• The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? Activity
• If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. Abstinence
• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let… Body
• The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment… Acknowledgment
• The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase Given
• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth Goodness
• It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice Easier
• True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important.… Art
• Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. Mine
• Faith is the force of life. Faith
• Whatever happens to be in style. Happens
• Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and… All

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