Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Artist Quotes

The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

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Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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