The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Love those you hate you.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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