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Lev Tolstoy

1828 - 1910. Great Russian writer, playwriter and philosopher, author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina".

1. "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

categories: Truth and Falsity

2. "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."

source: "War and Peace"

categories: Happiness -:- Love -:- Reality and Imagination

3. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."

categories: Joy and Sadness -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

4. "Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

source: "War and Peace"

categories: Life and Death -:- Love

5. "History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."

categories: History and Nations

6. "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

categories: History and Nations -:- Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

7. "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

categories: Authority, Government

8. "God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him."

categories: God and Religion -:- Human

9. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

categories: Egoism

10. "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

source: "Anna Karenina"

categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Happiness

11. "A king is history's slave."

source: "War and Peace"

categories: Authority, Government -:- History and Nations


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