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Things Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people,…
- 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…
- If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
- People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than…
- Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If…
- The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things…
- In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
- What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
- People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities…
- Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
- Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
- The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...
- Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
- So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence…
- The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions…
- At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness.…
- Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle