Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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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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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

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

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It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

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If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

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A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

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God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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