Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Book Quotes

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

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

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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

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And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

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Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

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Physical violence is the basis of authority.

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These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

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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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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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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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