“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“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.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
Leo Tolstoy
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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 societyconsider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that itis very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Leo Tolstoy
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