"The educated minority, although no longer believing in……" — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
"The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe"
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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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25 Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
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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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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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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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