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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.

Leo Tolstoy

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
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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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Cunning One Liner Wicked World
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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Couple Romantic Sun
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positive
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Enemy Love One Liner
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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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
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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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Attitude Change Enjoyment Job Work
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Emotion Music One Liner

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