Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYSpring is the time of plans and projects.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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