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Cannot Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
- If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for…
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people…
- It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a…
- The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes…
- A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two…
- The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
- Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that…
- Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is…
- There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
- There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
- Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or…
- Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering,…
- The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the…
- Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being,…
- Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really…
- And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
- I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I…
- But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
- To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because…
- I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me…
- Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said…
- Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden