Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Kings Quotes, Accomplishment Quotes

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

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Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

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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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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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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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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

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There are as many loves as there are hearts.

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

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