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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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 our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
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.
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.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
