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True Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
- 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.…
- If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side…
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people…
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own
- Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
- Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause…
- Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
- In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man…
- In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
- I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as…
- History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.
- The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
- 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 more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance…
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood