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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
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.
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.
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.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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.
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.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
