Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Everything intelligent is so boring.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

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Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

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It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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