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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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.
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.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
