Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Stars Quotes, Doubt Quotes

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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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

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After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

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If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

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Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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