Pleasure Lies Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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• Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men…
• Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
• The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love,…
• It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day.…
• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the…
• Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister
• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear…
• In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that…
• The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
• If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer.…
• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely…
• In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives…

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