Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Granted Quotes

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

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When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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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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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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