Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Pride Quotes, Order Quotes

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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Everything intelligent is so boring.

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

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But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

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