Leo Tolstoy Quotes

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

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A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

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There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

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Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

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but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

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