Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Humanity Quotes

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

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If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

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vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

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Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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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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The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

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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 example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

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Physical violence is the basis of authority.

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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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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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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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

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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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