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Human Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long…
- To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
- 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
- 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…
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and…
- [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…
- There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
- The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
- 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 is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
- So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather…
- Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable…
- Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
- Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
- 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…
- 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…
- Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If…
- Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
- For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
- We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
- You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
- If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
- People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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