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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mathematics,
Pleasure,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovering, seeking
«The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
condemns, definite, in a way, justifies, limits, narrow, punishes, similar, thereby
«What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
allowing, anticipating, assume, immense, Mass
«To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Humanity,
Justice,
Sin
| Keywords:
devilish, justify, sins
«Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Vengeance
| Keywords:
repay, vengeance
«A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Food,
Health
| Keywords:
appetite, canned food, eats, killing, meat, participates
«All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
families, Happy Family
«I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
church, concoction, convinced, craftiest, crafty, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, in practice, in theory, superstition, teaching, theory, The Church, witchcraft
«You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Laziness
| Keywords:
ball, ball over, ball up, imagine, laziness, On The Ball, rolling, roll over, roll up, send