Leo Tolstoy
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Absolute knowledge's closest approximation attainable by man is this: that life is meaningless.
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Action is never purely voluntary. If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
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Adaptation is inherent in man. There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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Anarchy is grounded in the assertion that there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions.
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Anarchy is incapable of coming about through revolution. Rather it will be instituted only when more and more people do not require protection from governmental power and when more and more people will be ashamed of applying this power.
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Arrogance is problematic because the arrogant person considers himself perfect, and thereby interferes with a person's main task in life... becoming a better person.
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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
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Art is . along with science, marked by an external sign; namely, that the artist's productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.
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Art is, along with science, marked by an inward mark: Namely, that the artist will fulfill his vocation, not for profit but with self-sacrifice.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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Art is not a means to pleasure, but rather, one of the conditions of human life, one of the means of effective communication between people.
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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement... it is a great matter, an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
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Art , when it is counterfeit, has as its consequence the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.
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Art is tasked with making understood and felt that which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
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Art is the field on which the evolution of feeling is played out such that lower feelings (less kind and less needed for the good of humanity) are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively.