Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
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If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of
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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, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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Boredom: the desire for desires
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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
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He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.
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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
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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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