Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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