Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Religious Quotes, People Quotes

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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