Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Culture Quotes, Motive Quotes

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

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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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When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

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People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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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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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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