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Letter "L" » Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
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«The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
astute, compound, in practice, sorcery
«The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Life,
Meaning
| Keywords:
acknowledgment
«Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.»
«One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three'--but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.»
«Church teachings are but fiction. I have knowledge of their inanity.»
«In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic»
«There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.»
«We will do almost anything for the poor man, anything but get off his back»
«If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life»
«The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.»
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