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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.
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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.
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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, Do what you like now.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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It is very difficult to tell the truth.
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
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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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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing] the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
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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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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
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