Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Faith is the force of life.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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