Leo Tolstoy Quotes


45 quotes:

"Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness."
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"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace"
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
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"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."
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"There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife"
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"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."
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"He sends a cross, but He also sends the strength to bear it."
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"Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion."
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;"
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"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice"
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Author: Tolstoy Quotes Category: Patience Quotes Russian Novelist Quotes
"Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new."
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"If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
Author: Tolstoy Quotes Category: Love Quotes Scholars And Scholarship Quotes
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
Author: Tolstoy Quotes Category: Life Quotes Russian Novelist Quotes
"Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it."
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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception."
Author: Tolstoy Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before..."
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"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
Author: Tolstoy Quotes Category: Humanity Quotes Russian Novelist Quotes

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