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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life - becoming a better person.
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.
