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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
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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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The only purpose of education is freedom the only method is experience.
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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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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is great matter.
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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
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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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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
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When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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