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Man Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
- Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,…
- How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
- And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be…
- And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"...
- Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
- Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods…
- 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…
- Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
- The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
- [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…
- Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it…
- Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
- The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
- Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about…
- Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
- God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any…
- The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by…
- The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
- 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…
- A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
- Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
- If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when…
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