| 26 Famous Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.”
Abstinence Quotes |
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“Boredom: the desire for desires”
Boredom Quotes |
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“Conceit is incompatible with understanding”
Conceit Quotes |
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“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars”
Doctrine Quotes |
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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Emotion Quotes |
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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Gold Quotes |
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Goodness Quotes |
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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government Quotes |
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“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
Historians Quotes |
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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”
Hypocrisy Quotes |
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“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness”
Joy Quotes |
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“To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.”
Justice Quotes |
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“You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!”
Laziness Quotes |
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“We lost because we told ourselves we lost”
Losing Quotes |
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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”
Machines Quotes |
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“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes”
Mathematics Quotes |
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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Patience Quotes |
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“Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars”
Punishment Quotes |
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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.”
Science Quotes |
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“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries”
Study Quotes |
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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”
Superstition Quotes |
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“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”
Unity Quotes |
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“Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.”
Vengeance Quotes |
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“Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars”
Violence Quotes |
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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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