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  • Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.
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    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Simple Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Animal Quotes , Self Quotes