Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

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

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If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

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Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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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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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

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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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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Children: a torment and nothing more.

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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

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Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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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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I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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