Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Mind Quotes

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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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

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People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

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

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

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