154 ordspråk av Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy föddes den
September 9th 1828 och dog den 20 November
1910 - notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics.
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
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The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.
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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
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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.
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The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes
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The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.
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The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase
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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.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.
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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery
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