Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Mean Quotes

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

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Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

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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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One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

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

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

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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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Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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