Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Men Quotes, Reason Quotes

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

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Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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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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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

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I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

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Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

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For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

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

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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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If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

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