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Certain Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which…
- Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
- We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning…
- Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night…
- Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all…
- Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is…
- The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
- Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and…
- 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…
- He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
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