Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Power Quotes, Expression Quotes

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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