Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYThe whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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.
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