Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Feelings Quotes

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 of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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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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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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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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An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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