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Mean Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
- The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep…
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- 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…
- By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
- Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the…
- Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even…
- 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…
- Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law…
- At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the…
- To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or…
- I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for…
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united…
- Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna…
- ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life…
- We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees…
- Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
- The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating…
- Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by…
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires,…
- If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams