Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
LEO TOLSTOY
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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