Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOY
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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