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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
