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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
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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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If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.
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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
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He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.
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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
Leo Tolstoy
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
Leo Tolstoy
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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