God is the same everywhere.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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