Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Thinking Quotes

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

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

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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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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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

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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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Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

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