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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery
By Leo Tolstoy
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
By Leo Tolstoy
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.
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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
By Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
By Leo Tolstoy
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
By Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
By Leo Tolstoy
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries
By Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
By Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
By Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.
By Leo Tolstoy