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«Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
activity, human activity, risen, transmission
«He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.»
«Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life»
«It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Principles,
Writing
| Keywords:
philosophical, put into practice, volumes
«Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
continues, destroy, life force, live on, The Force, The sense, whereby
«What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
goodness, illusion, strange, suppose
«There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
goodness, greatness, simplicities, simplicity
«He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
chooses, in style, opinion, style, wears
«What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
compatible, counts, incompatibility
«Conceit is incompatible with understanding»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conceit
| Keywords:
conceit, conceits, incompatible, understanding, with conceit
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