Leo Tolstoy Quotes

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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There's a way out of every situation.

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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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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. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

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I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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Faith is the force of life.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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