Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

…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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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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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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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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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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There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

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I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

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