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Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Quotes (458)

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
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But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.
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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
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There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
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Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
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Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
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Enough or not...it will have to do
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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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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
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