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«In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government,
History,
War
| Keywords:
governments, hatched, hatches, hatching, independent, interests, pernicious
«True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
Human perception, investigated, investigates, investigating, People of, perception, region, region of, transmits, transmitting
«If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.»
«There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.»
«Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
six, The Shadow, The Valley, valley
«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»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
adhesive, directions, spider, throw out, web, webs
«A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
pushed, The wave, wave
«I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
and others, carry back, carry off, choking, sit back, sorry for
«The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe»
«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»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Children,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
cleverest, deceive, disguised, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, ingeniously, penetrating, recognizes, revolted, revolts, wide-awake, wide
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