Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Life Changing Quotes, Past Quotes

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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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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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside. This was the way Natasha's wound healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly her love for her mother showed her that the essence of life - love - was still alive in her. Love awoke, and life awoke.

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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

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People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

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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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Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

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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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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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