From Leo Tolstoy: “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.”
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Quote of the day 12/08/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
Quote of the day 12/07/23
From Leo Tolstoy: ‘Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
Quote of the day 12/06/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
Quote of the day 12/05/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
Quote of the day 12/04/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Quote of the day 12/03/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Quote of the day 12/02/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Quote of the day 11/30/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Quote of the day 11/29/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
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