Leo Tolstoy Quotes, War Quotes, Government Quotes

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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Only those live who do good.

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If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

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Enough or not...it will have to do

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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