Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Food Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

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If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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Where there is love, there is God also.

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What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

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An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

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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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The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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