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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
― Lev Tolstoy
Permanent
Revolution
Regeneration
Man
Lev Tolstoy
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
― Lev Tolstoy
Activity
Important
Itself
Universal
Lev Tolstoy
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
― Lev Tolstoy
Words
Transmits
Feelings
Lev Tolstoy
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
― Lev Tolstoy
Vanity
Life
Sufficient
Reason
Lev Tolstoy
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
― Lev Tolstoy
Please
People
Judge
Myself
Lev Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
― Lev Tolstoy
Only
Nothing
Highest
Wisdom
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Inflates
Importance
Own
Right
Lev Tolstoy
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
― Lev Tolstoy
Struggle
Violence
Enslaved
Water
Lev Tolstoy
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
― Lev Tolstoy
Necessary
Defense
Governments
Subjects
Lev Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
― Lev Tolstoy
Families
Happy
Another
Unhappy
Lev Tolstoy
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
― Lev Tolstoy
Happiness
Ability
Love
Lev Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
― Lev Tolstoy
Everyone
Changing
World
Himself
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
History
Hatched
Governments
Successful
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Governments
Crimes
Increases
Lowering
Society
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Arrogant
Considers
Perfect
Person
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Moments
Happiness
Loved
World
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Meaningless
Answer
Question
Important
Lev Tolstoy
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.
― Lev Tolstoy
Either
Infinite
Explanation
Meaning
Lev Tolstoy
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
― Lev Tolstoy
Problems
Forgetting
Lives
Bodily
Lev Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
― Lev Tolstoy
Violence
People
Others
Lev Tolstoy