Leo Tolstoy Quotes, School Quotes, Three Quotes

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

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As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

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Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

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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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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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