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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
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.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
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.
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.
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.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
