All Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
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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
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Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
Discovering
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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
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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
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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
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Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister
Aware
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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
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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
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
Belief
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
Abstinence
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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
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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
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The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase
Given
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth
Goodness
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
Easier
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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
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Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.
Mine
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Faith is the force of life.
Faith
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Whatever happens to be in style.
Happens
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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…
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