Leo Tolstoy on philosophy
“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.”
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Everything intelligent is so boring.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Kings are the slaves of history.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy
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Henri BergsonHenri Bergson What we truly desire is happiness, which is truly found without desire.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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