I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is mea... by Leo Tolstoy

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

ignorance men knowledge

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

stars earth doubt

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

would-be knows sometimes

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, mu... by Leo Tolstoy

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

tradition reason men

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. goo... by Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

stories

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

karma inspirational peace

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

circles reading people

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedo... by Leo Tolstoy

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

chiefs

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happi... by Leo Tolstoy

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

misery

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

science knowledge art

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

favour mistake men

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

class men mean

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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