Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Issues Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

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

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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Only those live who do good.

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Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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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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Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

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