Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Peaceful Quotes

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

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The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

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Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

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