Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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