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Leo Tolstoy

4 quotes · War and Peace, A Confession

Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace · this quote
Everything I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
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