"Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in……" — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
"Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it."
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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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25 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…
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The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web…
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in…
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be…
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Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and…
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In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for…
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
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If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out…
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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal…
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In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws.…
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Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those…
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the…
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your…
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Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much…
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering…
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees…
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one…
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