The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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